Joint Letter to Minister of Communication and Information Technology - Indonesia
Dear H.E. Johnny G. Plate,
Minister of Communication and Information Technology
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Indonesia
laws and regulations
Indonesia: The New Omnibus Law
TAPOL Briefing
Recent changes to Indonesian labour law: why the country's workers are protesting
October 19, 2020
Joint Statement on the 'Act of Free Choice' Judicial Review Submission
TAPOL and the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) are calling attention to an application for judicial review of the “Act of Free Choice” by the Indonesian Constitutional Court.
Statement from Advocacy Team for Citizen Freedom - Tools of State Repression: Abolish treason articles in the Indonesian Criminal Code
Tools of State Repression: Abolish treason articles in the Indonesian Criminal Code
See No Prisoners
According to Djoko Suyanto, the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, there are no political prisoners in Papua — only criminals who have broken the law. This is troubling news for Papuans such as Filep Karma, Forkorus Yaboisembut and others who are currently behind bars for expressing their beliefs.
Human Rights in Papua 2011/2012
2010 and 2011 have been particularly singular for the indigenous Papuans who live in the Western half of the Island of New Guinea. In 2010 episodes of torture perpetrated against Indigenous Papuans were displayed worldwide. Through shocking and horrific video images, the entire world has discovered how the Indonesian Army deliberately commits torture against Indigenous Papuans.
MIFEE Project Violates Human Rights
One year after the MIFEE (Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate) Project was launched by the central government, the situation of the people in Merauke has become a matter of grave concern. The indigenous Malind people and the inhabitants in Merauke in general have been threatened and marginalised as a result of the conversion of their land and their ancestral forests by the MIFEE Project.
1965 Victims Request Judicial Review
THE PRESIDENT OF INDONESIA SHOULD REPEAL KEPPRES 28/1975
On 4 April 2011, a Judicial Review was conveyed to the President of Indonesia to repeal Presidential
Decision (Keppres) 28/1975 by a group of 24 NGOs, lawyers and individuals headed by:
Haris Azhar, Constitutional Law Advocate and Coordinator Kontras, Commission for the Disappeared
and Victims of Violence.
Bedjo Untung, chairman of the Investigation Institute
Sumaun Utomo of 1965/66 (YPKP) Victims.
The basis for this Judicial Review is as follows:
The Munir history test: Unfinished business of justice
In October 1999, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) published a report, Ruler's Law, that described how Indonesia's first two presidents - Sukarno and Soeharto - created an environment in which the country's constitutional and legal norms were "allied closely with the authority of the Presidency and the authoritarian character of the prevailing political order".
The abuse of power "created the preconditions for the establishment of an absolutist State in which the rule of law, judicial independence and human rights have been frequently disregarded," said the ICJ.
Submission to 2008 Universal Periodic Review of Indonesia by UN HRC
1. This submission is made to the OHCHR by TAPOL, a UK-based NGO, formed in 1973, which promotes human rights, peace and democracy in Indonesia. TAPOL is a relevant stakeholder under Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007.
Priority issue: Impunity
2. The submission highlights the issue of impunity and recommends that the Human Rights Council (HRC) addresses four particular concerns in its review of Indonesia: