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View all search resultsIndonesia on Friday extended its “deepest condolences” over the death of a United States pilot in Papua, following a fatal attack by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) and pledging to work with Washington as investigations continue.
Law enforcement of illegal logging actitvities are aimed at tracing the origins of the wooden logs, checking their documents and ensuring timbers entering processing industry has proper legality.
Military prosecutors have opted not to challenge what critics describe as the lenient sentences handed down to four Indonesian Military (TNI) Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS) personnel convicted over the acid attack on rights activist Andrie Yunus, despite appeals filed by the men themselves.
Topping the demands made by students across the archipelago are to stop the free meals and rural cooperatives programs, restore the TNI to its original defense function and to stabilize the national currency.
The deployment of Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel against a student protest denouncing wasteful state spending drew criticism from protesters and civil society groups, who said that crowd control falls outside the mandate of defense forces.
Indonesia’s military justice system still reflects a broader pattern of impunity for handing down mild sentences, especially in cases of violence committed by personnel against civilians, according to rights group the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras).
The South Jakarta court has ordered police to reopen their investigation into the acid attack on rights activist Andrie Yunus, potentially broadening efforts to identify the mastermind behind the assault, as military prosecutors seek prison terms for four soldiers that civil groups have criticized as too lenient.
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