Oct 18, 2021 Last Updated 1:13 AM, Oct 14, 2021

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Human Rights

Selling the Omnibus Law on Job Creation

A protester raises the Indonesian flag during the Omnibus Law protest / TEMPO/Hilman Fathurrahman

The role of cyber troops in promoting Indonesia’s controversial pro-business bill

Carmel Budiardjo (1925-2021)

Human rights campaigner Carmel Budiardjo died aged 96 on 10 July 2021, after a long and dynamic life of activism dating back to her years as a student activist in the 1940s

Beauty and belonging in West Papua

An indigenous Papuan waria preparing for a beauty pageant / Terje Toomistu

Papuan waria draw on foreign ideals of beauty in their quest for a sense of belonging in their local communities

‘We never invited you to come here’

Refugees prepare for a condolence ceremony for a friend's mother, Makassar 2021/ Ali Froghi

Refugees battle racism in Indonesia

Bhinneka Tunggal Ika?

/ Amnesty Indonesia

Reality often falls short of expectations

Pertarungan untuk penghapusan kekerasan seksual

‘Lindungi Kami dari Kekerasan Seksual. Sahkan RUU PKS’ / ANTARA FOTO/Hafidz Mubarak A

Penundaan pengesahaan Rancangan Undang-Undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual (RUU PKS) berbarengan dengan peningkatan kekerasan terhadap perempuan

The fight to outlaw sexual violence in Indonesia

'Protect us from sexual violence. Pass the Sexual Violence Bill' / ANTARA FOTO/Hafidz Mubarak A

Delays to the Sexual Violence Bill have coincided with an increase in violence against women

West Papua and Black Lives Matter

We are not monkeys / Twitter

A movement seeking justice, healing, and freedom for Black people has become a powerful rallying call for Indigenous West Papuans

An imagined threat

Thinkstock: IStockphoto

Atheists are treated with suspicion in a religious society, but they represent an opportunity

Meet, pray, love

@Flickr Creative Commons

Religious belief and sexual identity collide often for an atheist meeting up with gay Muslims

Atheism in Indonesia

/ @Flickr Creative Commons

Memotret seksualitas di Indonesia

Waria di Sulawesi c1950s / Sharyn Graham Davies

Di tengah meningkatnya pelecehan dan pengawasan seksualitas, keragaman seksual dan pemberdayaan seksual menemukan ruangnya di Indonesia

Kekerasan seksual dan perempuan pekerja

Melindungi martabat perempuan di tempat kerja, memperbaiki kehidupan perempuan pekerja / Radio Marsinah

Rancangan Undang-undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual (RUU PKS) akan membantu melindungi perempuan di tempat kerja

Sexual violence and women workers

Protecting women’s dignity in the workplace will improve the lives of women workers / Marsinah Radio

Indonesia’s proposed sexual violence elimination law will help protect women in the workplace

Sexualities in Indonesia

Waria (trans women) in Sulawesi around 1950 / courtesy of Sharyn Graham Davies

Despite increasingly worrying levels of harassment and surveillance, sexual diversity and sexual empowerment are finding spaces in Indonesia

#MeToo Indonesia

House of the Unsilenced postcard, which reads: ‘This is our house, which we’ve built from our stories and artworks. Here we are not silenced. Here we are free to express ourselves. Listen to our voices!’ / Adriana Rahajeng with permission from House of the Unsilenced

Indonesian feminists are capitalising on #MeToo, and using social media to facilitate offline action

Hip-hop: a missed opportunity

Young Papuan men enjoying hip-hop / Diana Prakasi

Hip-hop should be combating, not reinforcing, the problem of sexual violence in West Papua

Hip-hop: peluang yang terlewatkan

Laki-laki muda Papua menikmati hip-hop / Diana Pakasi

Hip-hop seharusnya menjadi alat untuk memerangi kasus kekerasan seksual di Papua, bukannya malah mendukung lahirnya kasus-kasus serupa

Mobilising fear

Antara Foto / Andreas Fitri Atmoko

Unchecked hate speech against Indonesia’s LGBT community is having a devastating effect

Fearing the queer

The statue of Garuda Pancasila, the Indonesian coat of arms displayed in the Ruang Tenang (quiet room) at Monas (the National Monument) in Jakarta / Gunawan Kartapranata/CC BY-SA 4.0

Indonesia’s national image excludes many, in clear contradiction with its laws and principles

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