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View all search resultsThe amnesty plan first surfaced last month, when Law Minister Supratman Andi Agtas announced after a meeting with President Prabowo Subianto an idea to pardon some 44,000 prisoners nationwide on humanitarian grounds and to help relieve the country’s overcrowded prisons.
Egianus Kogoya, the dreadlocked rebel behind the kidnapping of a New Zealand pilot this month in the highlands of Indonesia’s Papua region, is at the vanguard of an increasingly dangerous and media-savvy insurgency for independence.
Myanmar’s National Unity Government, an organization that represents mostly members of the civilian legislature deposed in a recent coup, has expressed its readiness to work with ASEAN after its leaders called for an end to violence by the military regime.
A soldier allegedly tortured and shot Papuan pastor Yeremia Zanambani at close range in the latter’s pig pen in Hitadipa district, Intan Jaya regency, which led to his death hours later amid escalating tensions in the area, according to the findings of an independent investigation carried out by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM).
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