10-14 December 2010
Impunity is like a ‘virus’
IHRC was very pleased to welcome Rusdi Marpaung as our guest at a seminar following our AGM on 11 December, 2010. Rusdi also addressed a public meeting in Whangarei, met with Auckland MPs and attended the Amnesty Aotearoa’s Human Rights Defender Award ceremony.
Rusdi is a Senior researcher with Imparsial—a [...]
2009 Report on Human Rights Practices: Indonesia
March 11, 2010
Indonesia is a multiparty democracy with a population of approximately 245 million. On July 8, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was reelected president in generally free and fair elections. April 9 legislative elections were complex, but domestic and international observers judged them generally free and fair as well. Civilian [...]
Despite its growing reputation as an emerging Muslim-majority democracy, Indonesia saw little human rights progress in 2009. In July President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was reelected by a wide margin, providing him the opportunity to take more decisive action against impunity, religious intolerance, and other continuing threats to human rights. At this writing, there is little [...]
Posted in Aceh, Java, West Papua | 1 Comment »>By Dean Yates
I wonder if Adnan Ibrahim ever found his son or Munawar Jamaluddin ever located his daughter. As much as I hope they did, I doubt it. Both men were part of the drama that unfolded in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Dec. 26, 2004, when a 9.15 magnitude earthquake triggered a massive tsunami that [...]
September 2009
Legislators in Indonesia’s Aceh province have unanimously approved a law allowing adulterers to be stoned to death.
Read the full article here: Al Jazeera: Stoning Law in Aceh
The Jakarta Post
May 20, 2009
by Hotli Simanjuntak
Banda Aceh
A local party, founded by former rebels of the Aceh Free Movement, was officially announced Monday as the winner of the 9 April legislative election, but no celebrations marked their victory. No street convoys were conducted by supporters of the Aceh Party which secured 33 seats out of [...]
The elections were tense in Aceh but in the end helped to consolidate the peace process
Blair Palmer
July 2009
April’s legislative elections may have seemed like business as usual in most of Indonesia, but in Aceh the poll was preceded by mysterious murders, widespread intimidation, and a series of arson attacks against party offices. There was also [...]