Freeport Miners Fight for a Bigger Slice of Pie

Jakarta Globe, 13. November 2011

Tjahjo Eranius

Kuala Kencana. After more than a decade of hard work and long hours driving a truck through the mountains of Indonesia’s remote Papua province for US mining giant Freeport McMoRan, Nus Magay refuses to work for anything less than a hefty raise.
Since mid-September the 35-year-old has taken part in an angry strike — which last month turned deadly after clashes with police — together with about one-third of Freeport’s 23,000 workers.
“I’m ... read more

Posted on 03:30 PM in Economy, Labor & Corruption, Indonesia, Papua, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: labour, mining, Indonesia, Papua

New Report Reveals Extent of Papua Human Rights Violations

We’d like to attract your attention to this new Human Rights Report on Papua. Watch Indonesia! contributed to this report.

Geneva, 03 November 2011

Faith Based Network on West Papua (FBN) – Franciscans International – Asian Human Rights Commission – TAPOL

 

NGOs meet in Geneva to address their concerns on the situation of Human Rights in Papua

Following last month’s violent dispersal by Indonesian security forces of the Third Papuan Peoples’ Congress in Jayapura, Indonesia has been confronted with the full scale ... read more

Posted on 03:26 AM in joint studies and reports, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Papua, Publications, Regional Conflicts
Tags: Indonesia, human rights, NGO, Papua, political prisoners

(Bahasa Indonesia) Fungsi Partai Masih Keteteran

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Posted on 06:54 AM in democracy, Elections & Political Parties, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: democracy, Indonesia, political parties, elections

(Bahasa Indonesia) Ketika yang Sedikit Mengalahkan yang Banyak

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Posted on 09:05 AM in democracy, Elections & Political Parties, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: democracy, Indonesia, elections

Indonesia: The Indonesian Government must ensure the Rule of Law

October 2011

Aide-Mémoire 2011

After the fall of the Suharto-Regime in 1998, Indonesia reoriented its human rights policies. Laws on human rights and human rights courts were passed, the national human rights commission was given additional powers and the Ministry of Justice was transformed into the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. At the UN-level, Indonesia became a party to both human rights covenants and signed a range of important conventions, such as the Convention against Torture. Through its membership ... read more

Posted on 12:55 AM in Aceh, joint position papers, Justice, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Papua, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: Aceh, poverty, Government of Germany, discrimination, food security, gender, violence, indigenous people, Indonesia, justice, Kalimantan / Borneo, land rights, human rights, military, Munir, palm oil, Papua, law, religion, impunity, environment and climate, United Nations

(Deutsch) Indonesiens Unternehmerelite lässt die Puppen tanzen

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Posted on 02:42 AM in Agro Fuels, democracy, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Elections & Political Parties, Human Rights, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Papua, Publications, Pulp & Paper, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: Aceh, democracy, Indonesia, land rights, human rights, NGO, palm oil, pulp and paper, Papua, political parties, rain forest destruction, religion, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, environment and climate, economy and business, civil society

(Bahasa Indonesia) Mengadaptasi Pemilihan Umum 1999

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Posted on 01:15 AM in democracy, Elections & Political Parties, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: democracy, Indonesia, law, elections

Improve the Design of Indonesia’s Electoral System

Prasetya Online, 16 September 2011

http://prasetya.ub.ac.id/berita/Improve-the-Design-of-Indonesias-Electoral-System-5943-en.html
 

In every General Election (Pemilu), Indonesia always makes a new electoral system Act (UU). During the reform era only, it has born two Acts, namely electoral system Act No. 2003 and 2008. In both Acts, for the election of the members of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR RI), for example, it contained several goals that turned out to be violated in practice. Some of these goals include ... read more

Posted on 03:41 AM in democracy, Elections & Political Parties, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: democracy, Germany, Indonesia, political parties, law, electoral system

(Deutsch) Bio-Sprit im Düsenjet

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Posted on 12:04 PM in "In the Spotlight", Agro Fuels, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), Indonesia, environment and climate

(Deutsch) Indonesien: Palmöl-Lieferant in der Kritik

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Posted on 09:46 PM in Agro Fuels, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: indigenous people, Indonesia, land rights, human rights, palm oil, Police, Sumatra, economy and business