[12 August 2013] -
Indonesia should stop allowing doctors, midwives and other health workers to carry out female genital mutilation (FGM) on children and babies as young as six months, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (OHCHR) has said...
Summary: A new law in Indonesia places unnecessary and onerous restrictions on the activities of NGOs, Human Rights Watch reports. Indonesia’s donors should press the Indonesian government to amend the law to ensure basic freedoms and a vibrant...
Summary: L’Indonésie place des enfants migrants et demandeurs d’asile en détention ou les néglige, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd’hui. Ils sont des centaines chaque année à être détenus dans des conditions sordides,...
[24 June 2013] -
Indonesia is systemically failing refugee and asylum seeker children who seek protection within its borders, and is responsible for "routine brutality" inflicted upon minors in Indonesian immigration detention, a damning...
Summary: General overview of Indonesia's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to conduct further research.National laws on children's rights
Status of the CRC in national law
Article 7(2) of Law No. 39 of...
Summary: Information about institutions in Indonesia that monitor children's rights.Children's Ombudsperson
The Indonesian Commission for Child Protection, the National Commission on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour and the the...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
Summary: En Indonésie, les efforts visant à protéger les enfants contre la maltraitance sont entravés par certains obstacles qui empêchent les dénonciations de tels actes criminels. Ce problème pourrait d’ailleurs s’aggraver avec la menace de...
Summary: A group of United Nations independent experts on freedoms of association, expression, and religion and on the situation of human rights defenders today warned that the Bill on Mass Organizations - due for vote later this week in Indonesia...
Summary: An estimated 50 per cent of Indonesian children do not have birth certificates, due to several reasons, including unregistered marriages, and Sharia law dictating that children born out of wedlock do not have inheritance rights.[18 February...
