Dec 07, 2019 Last Updated 11:46 PM, Dec 3, 2019

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Human Rights

‘No more money for our needles’

Preparing the injection - Sari Damar Ratri

HIV prevention programs lack financial support, with serious consequences

Masa lalu yang tersembunyi

Esai foto-foto Pulau Buru

Review: Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66

Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66 - Routledge

Pohlman’s study provides sensitive and powerful testimony of the impact of this violence on women and girls

Murdering army, silent church

Rev. Mery Kolimon: ‘The Indonesian Churches did not protect the victims of 1965’ - Willem van Gent

Reverend Mery Kolimon, researcher and advocate working on the 1965 killings in Eastern Indonesia, has a personal connection to this piece of history

Testimony of a messenger

President Sukarno with PKI Secretary General DN Aidit at an anniversary celebration for the PKI, 23 May 1965 - Howard Sochurek

A memoir by a former army officer offers insights into Suharto’s moves in October 1965

Bagaimana Indonesia menangani migrasi paksa

Kasus Rohingya mengungkap bagaimana sulitnya melawan kejahatan transnasional dalam migrasi paksa

What the future might hold

Rafendi Djamin (former Indonesian representative AICHR), Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti (LIPI), and Alice Nah (University of York) at the track two dialogue - Credit: Centre for Policy Development

Opening new prospects for asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia and Southeast Asia

Filling the legal vacuum

Asylum seekers queue at UNHCR’s office in Jakarta - Credit: Antje Missbach

Improving prospects for asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia is a matter of political will

Shelter versus shielded borders

A sign reading ‘West Aceh Community support for Muslim Rohingya’ - Credit: Antje Missbach

The Rohingya case reveals the difficulty of combatting transnational crime associated with forced migration

Rocking the boat

The group of eighteen with their interpreters at the Curtin Detention Centre, 1995 - Credit: Odete Pinto

Jose da Costa and 17 others fled Indonesia-occupied East Timor on a small fishing boat and sought asylum in Australia

Ugly sanctuary

Dilapidated buildings at the former refugee centre on Galang Island - Credit: Antje Missbach

The Galang Island refugee camp has a chequered history

Marriage denied

A Cambodian refugee with his daughter and Indonesian wife - Credit: Antje Missbach

Refugees, asylum seekers and stateless migrants face significant barriers to marrying their Indonesian partners

Resisting limbo

Children at play at the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre - Credit: CRLC

Self-organisation amongst refugees in Indonesia

All alone

Rohingya man in a camp in Bayeun, Aceh - Credit: Henri Ismail

Unaccompanied minors face precarious conditions in Indonesia

Asylum in Indonesia: Can temporary refuge become permanent protection?

Refugee children play soccer on an outdoor pitch in West Java - Credit: Thomas Brown.

The international refugee system is in disarray. As Europe struggles to craft a response to an unprecedented influx of migrants and asylum seekers, the United Nations refugee agency reports that displacement is at a record high of 60 million people. While most of the world’s displaced remain inside their own countries, almost 20 million people are refugees seeking protection in other states. Indonesia and the region are not immune from these global challenges.

The Sultan of development?

Return to the rules of the Palace” on a busy street in Yogyakarta - Cally Colbron

Succession within the Sultanate of Yogyakarta decides who will own vast tracts of land

Keeping promises

A workshop focussed on revising the Indonesian disability law - Credit: ILO. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/deed.en_US

Disability rights activists have called on Jokowi to account for his pre-election promises

United in disappointment

Garment workers are among those who will lose out as a result of changes to the minimum wage law in Indonesia - Credit: ILO. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/deed.en_US.

Labour rights have suffered under the Jokowi administration

The politics of compromise

Source: Ucu Agustin

The Reconciliation Committee has dashed hopes that Jokowi could improve Indonesia’s human rights record

No ‘magic bullet’

Protesters at the Thursday (Kamisan) protest outside the Presidential Palace in June 2014, warning against a Prabowo presidency - Credit: Vannessa Hearman

Dealing with human rights abuses has been business as usual under the Jokowi administration

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