Updated March 17, 2003.
Compiled by Mary Whisner, Assistant Librarian for Reference Services.
Supporting presentations by Associate Dean Patricia C. Kuszler and Research Associate Professor Beth Rivin.

For a more current guide, see Researching Health and Human Rights (prepared in 2009 for a class focusing on Africa.

• Human Rights Research Guide
• Indonesian Legal Materials on the Web
  • Catalog
  • Overviews of the Legal System
  • DIAL Project
  • Legislation
  • Supreme Court
  • Government Agencies
  • Law Schools
  • Commentary
• Human Rights Reports on Indonesia
• International Health Sites with Information about Indonesia
• Health and Human Rights Sites

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Human Rights Research Guide

Gallagher Law Library, Human Rights Research. This is a guide to human rights research generally. It includes links to web resources as well as discussing print resources available at the University of Washington and other electronic resources.

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Indonesian Legal Materials on the Web

Catalog

The World Legal Information Institute, www.worldlii.org, has an excellent catalog of Indonesian sites at http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/223.html.

• A Quick Guide to WorldLII
• Indonesian: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/publications/guides/quick/indonesian.html
• English: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/publications/guides/quick/english.html

Overviews of the Legal System

• One-page summary, on the website of a Jakarta law firm (Lubis Ganie & Surowidjojo), http://www.lgslaw.co.id/legalsys.asp.
• Longer overview, by a business law professor (Dr. Benny S. Tabalujan) in Singapore, http://www.llrx.com/features/indonesia.htm.

DIAL Project

The Asian Development Bank is funding a project to make law available on the Internet.

• Brochure about DIAL (Development of the Internet for Asian Law)
• English: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/publications/brochures/english.html
• Indonesian: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/publications/brochures/indonesian.html
• Training in Indonesia
• �DIAL provides in-country training in Internet legal research to government lawyers in seven selected Developing Member Countries (DMCs) under the ADB Regional Technical Assistance Project: the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Viet Nam and Cambodia.� http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/dial/ (emphasis added). They have already had sessions in Indonesia (in 2001 and 2002).

Legislation

• WorldLII�s list of Indonesian legislation is at http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/224.html. Material related to health and human rights might include
• Biosafety regulations, http://binas.unido.org/binas/country.php3?id=23. (Agricultural biotech.)
• Law Concerning Population Development and the Development of Happy and Prosperous Families (1992) (in English), http://www.unescap.org/pop/database/law_indo/content.htm.
• World Health Organization Summary of Health Legislation, http://www3.who.int/idhl-rils/frame.cfm?language=english
• Choose by Country at the bottom of the screen
• Choose Indonesia from the menu
• Topic list then includes:

  IA. General health codes, laws, and constitutional and other fundamental provision (1)
  IC. Health financing (1)
  ID. Health research (1)
  II. Health personnel (1)
  VII. Human reproduction and population policies (1)
  XA. Smoking (1)
  XC. Drug abuse (narcotics, psychotropic drugs, and other dependence-producing drugs) (3)
  XVII. Occupational health and safety (1)
  XVIII. Environmental protection (5)

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Supreme Court

Kantor Mahkamah Agung Republik Indonesia, http://www.mari.go.id/. In Indonesian.

Government Agencies

Links to websites for many government agencies are at http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2436.html. Health and human rights researchers might be particularly interested in:

• Statistics Indonesia (in English), http://www.bps.go.id/index.shtml.
• Population category includes infant mortality rate, fertility rate.
• Social welfare category includes tables for health and nutrition.
• More statistics are available in publications.
  • Ministry for the Empowerment of Women (Kementerian Pemberdayaan Perempuan RI) (in Indonesian), http://www.menegpp.go.id/
  • National Commission on Human Rights (in Indonesian and English): http://www.komnas.go.id -- site was not available when I tried to visit.
  • Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Departemen Kesehatan), http://www.depkes.go.id/. Most of this site is in Indonesian.

Law Schools

Links to 14 Indonesian faculties of law are at http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/3005.html.

Commentary

The Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne, www.law.unimelb.edu.au/alc/, has a section called �Indonesia: Recent Work� with articles about legal developments. See http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/alc/indonesia/index.html.

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Human Rights Reports on Indonesia

• Human Rights Watch reports on Indonesia: http://hrw.org/reports/world/indonesia-pubs.php.
• Human rights projects by The Asia Foundation in Indonesia: http://www.asiafoundation.com/programs/prog-asia-indohr1.html.
• U.S. Dep't of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Indonesia sections:
• 2001 report (released March 4, 2002), http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/8314.htm.
• 2000 report (Feb. 23, 2001), http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eap/707.htm.
• 1999 report (Feb. 23, 2000), http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/288.htm.
• 1998 report (Feb. 26, 1999), http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1998_hrp_report/indonesi.html.
• 1997 report (Jan. 30, 1998), http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1997_hrp_report/indonesi.html.
• 1996 report (Jan. 30, 1997), http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1996_hrp_report/indonesi.html.
• 1995 report (March 1996), gopher://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/00ftp:DOSFan:Gopher:03%20Publications%20-%20Major%20Reports:Human%20Rights%20Country%20Practices:1995%20HRC%20Report:04%20East%20Asia%20and%20Pacific:Indonesia.
• 1994 report (February 1995), gopher://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/00ftp:DOSFan:Gopher:03%20Publications%20-%20Major%20Reports:Human%20Rights%20Country%20Practices:1994%20HRC%20Report:05%20East%20Asia%20and%20Pacific:Indonesia.
• 1993 report (Jan. 31, 1994), gopher://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/00ftp:DOSFan:Gopher:03%20Publications%20-%20Major%20Reports:Human%20Rights%20Country%20Practices:1993%20HRC%20Report:05%20East%20Asia%20and%20Pacific:Indonesia.
• Amnesty International reports on Indonesia, http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/countries/indonesia?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expandall.
• U.S. Committee for Refugees, http://www.refugees.org/world/countryrpt/easia_pacific/indonesia.htm.
• International Committee of the Red Cross, http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/indonesia?OpenDocument.

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International Health Sites with Information about Indonesia

• UNICEF
• statistics on population, immunization, water sanitation, etc., http://www.unicef.org/statis/Country_1Page78.html.
• UNICEF appeals, news reports, etc., about Indonesia, http://www.unicef.org/emerg/Indonesia.htm.
• World Health Organization, Indonesia page, http://www.who.int/country/idn/en/.
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDs, http://www.unaids.org
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• Epidemiological fact sheet for Indonesia, http://www.unaids.org/hivaidsinfo/statistics/fact_sheets/pdfs/Indonesia_en.pdf (14 pages).
• �Join the Fight Against AIDS in Indonesia,� http://www.unaids.org/partnership/pdf/INDONESIAfolder.pdf (4-page brochure).
• INDONESIA,Statement by H.E. Dr. Achmad Sujudi, Minister for Health, at the Twenty-Seventh Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Children, New York, 10 May 2002, http://www.un.org/ga/children/indonesiaE.htm.
• ASEAN
• �Social Development� page, http://www.aseansec.org/8558.htm -- scroll down to headings for �Health Development� and �Disease Surveillance� (includes declaration on HIV/AIDS).
• �Declaration of the 5th ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting on Healthy ASEAN 2020,� 28-29 April 2000, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, http://www.aseansec.org/660.htm.
• �Declaration Of the 6th Asean Health Ministers� Meeting On Healthy ASEAN Lifestyles (Vientiane Declaration),� 15 March 2002, Vientiane, Lao People�s Democratic Republic http://www.aseansec.org/10230.htm.

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Health and Human Rights Sites

• Amnesty International Health Professionals Network Online, http://www.web.amnesty.org/rmp/hponline.nsf/?OpenDatabase
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• Bibliography: Publications on Health and Human Rights Themes:1985�2002, http://www.web.amnesty.org/rmp/hponline.nsf/WebInlineText/bibliography?open. Cites to published works in medical journals and elsewhere.
• The HealthRights Connection, http://www.phrusa.org/healthrights/index.html. Site maintained by Physicians for Human Rights. Bills itself as �Your Source for Health & Human Rights Advocacy & Research.� OpenDatabase
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• Health Care on the Brink: Violations of Human Rights and Medical Ethics in East Timor (1999), 25-page report ($7.00), described at http://www.phrusa.org/publications/etimor.html.

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