East Timor and Indonesia Action Network

This blog supplements ETAN's website (etan.org) and listservs. It includes news and comment on justice, human rights, democracy, security, foreign affairs, U.S policy, the environment, and other issues related to the two countries. ETAN supports justice, accountability, human rights and democracy and is non-partisan.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Groups call on SBY to release Papua political prisoners

An international collection of groups have written to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urging the release of Papuan polit...

Monday, August 2, 2010

US-Jakarta ties 'threat to Papua,' threat to rights

"No military aid without justice!!!" says the banner at a protest opposing renewed assistance to Kopassus at the U.S. Embassy. Mu...

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Secretary of Defense Gates Goes to Jakarta Bearing Kopassus Gift

UPDATE: See ETAN's media release here ETAN is disgusted to learn that while Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was in Jakarta, he anno...

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Even the Pentagon...

Newsweek writes that "Even the Pentagon, which cut ties to the Indonesian military after massacres in East Timor two decades ago, was...

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Congratulations to Timor's Milena Pires on CEDAW election

ETAN congratulates Milena Pires (full name: Maria Helena Lopes de Jesus Pires) on her election to the Convention on the monitoring commis...

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