Jakarta – Representatives from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) visited the office of the Ministry of State Secretariat at the Presidential Palace Complex in Jakarta on Monday March 4.
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March 2024
Sabrina Asril, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) is asking the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) to be serious in investigating the recent violence that has occurred in Papua.
Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition for Security Sector Reform is asking the Indonesian military Headquarters (Mabes TNI) to cancel a plan to add regional military commands (Kodam) in all Indonesian provinces.
Icha Rastika, Jakarta – Army Chief of Staff (KSAD) General Maruli Simanjuntak claims that many local people have asked him for new TNI (Indonesian military) post to be established in regions that he has visited.
February 2024
Jakarta – Scores of civil society organisations have expressed their opposition to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's decision to award Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto with an honorary rank of four-star general.
Jakarta – The moment Prabowo Subianto was dismissed from the Indonesian Armed Forces (then called ABRI) has again been in the public spotlight after President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo awarded the Defense Minister and presumptive president the rank of honorary fo
Ihsanuddin, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid believes that the plan to award the rank of honorary four-star general on Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto will be a problematic decision.
Ihsanuddin, Jakarta – A number of retired Indonesian Air Force (TNI AU) officers who are members of Elang Indonesia Maju (Onward Indonesian Eagles) have declared their support for the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair number 3, Ganjar Pranowo and
November 2023
Krisiandi, Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition is concerned that there is a politicisation of the TNI (Indonesian military) occurring in the lead up to the 2024 elections.
October 2023
Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has strongly condemned the revisions to the Civil Service Law (UU ASN), which allows active TNI (Indonesian military) and Polri (national police) members to hold civil