The UN Security Council should establish an International Criminal tribunal with jurisdiction over all grave human rights violations surrounding Timor-Leste’s 1999 independence referendum and in the previous 24 years of Indonesian occupation, said Amnesty International in a report published today to mark the 10th anniversary of independence vote.
A decade after Timor-Leste voted for independence, a [...]

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Amnesty International called today for the immediate and unconditional release of 11 Papuan protestors facing three years or more in prison merely because they displayed a banned flag.
The organization urged the Indonesian government to withdraw the 2007 government regulation that bans the display of separatist flags.
The 11 activists were arrested in March 2008 for hoisting [...]

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Indonesian authorities should immediately investigate the forcible destruction of an estimated 300 homes in the village of Suluk Bongka on 18 December, Amnesty International said today. Local sources told Amnesty International that two children died during the confrontation and that nearly 400 villagers are still homeless and living in a nearby forest. Fifty eight people [...]

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Today’s execution of three people known collectively as the “Bali Bombers” should be the last time Indonesian authorities use the death penalty, said Amnesty International.
The three, Amrozi bin H. Nurhasyim, Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas, and Imam Samudera, were convicted of involvement in the 12 October 2002 bombings on the island of Bali, which killed 202 people [...]

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The governments of Indonesia and Timor-Leste have missed an historic opportunity to provide justice for more than 1,000 people killed during Timor-Leste’s vote for independence in 1999, Amnesty International said today.
The Indonesian and Timorese governments have accepted a report released today by the Commission for Truth and Friendship (CTF) in Bali, which accuses the Indonesian [...]

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Government Should Protect Religious Minority, Not Threaten Prison for Beliefs
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should reverse a decree that would permit criminal prosecutions of the Ahmadiyah community for their religious beliefs, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Indonesia must fulfil its commitment to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 2008, Amnesty International has urged.
In 2004, the President of Indonesia adopted a National Plan of Action on Human Rights. Significantly, the Plan states that Indonesia intends to ratify the Rome Statute in 2008.
Midway through 2008, however, it remains uncertain [...]

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Government Should Protect Ahmadis, not Persecute Them
The Indonesian government should reject proposals to ban the minority Ahmadiyah faith and not align itself with the extremists who have fomented violence against them, Human Rights Watch said today.
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