Indonesia

Highlights of Programmes in the Past Year

Strengthening the Work of the Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Aceh TRC)

AJAR provided sustained technical assistance to the Aceh TRC, ensuring that victims’ voices remain central to its work. AJAR supported the dissemination of the TRC’s final report and advocated for the implementation of its reparation recommendations. In 2025, marking 20 years since the Aceh Peace Agreement, AJAR highlighted lessons from Aceh on truth, reparation, and peacebuilding for the broader Indonesian context. Through community-based documentation and initiatives, AJAR also strengthened local partners and women survivor groups to advocate for their rights and achieve economic empowerment through cooperatives.

Supporting Timorese Stolen Children and Family Reunifications

AJAR continued its long-term work to trace, identify, and reunite Timorese “stolen children” with their families. In partnership with survivor networks, AJAR facilitated cross-border dialogues, advocacy for state recognition, and psychosocial support to reconnect identities and restore family ties.

AJAR Fellowship: Unlearning Impunity and Fostering Intergenerational Dialogue

Through the AJAR Fellowship program, AJAR equips young people in more than 20 communities across Indonesia to challenge narratives of impunity. This initiative addresses the root causes of injustice, confronts contemporary issues of intolerance, discrimination, historical forgetting, trauma, and social stigma, and ultimately works towards communities free from violence.

Supporting Women’s Indigenous Livelihood in Papua

AJAR supports women, youth, and indigenous leaders to develop community-based documentation, healing, and protection models. This links environmental struggles to transitional justice by encompassing participatory action research, solidarity networks, and advocacy for bottom-up, culturally rooted development and climate justice.

Memory, Solidarity, and Advocacy with Victims’ Movements

In collaboration with the National Coalition for Truth and Justice (KKPK), AJAR supported victims’ groups to strengthen national advocacy for truth and reparations. The initiative built cross-regional networks and contributed to the creation of a regional hub for memory and justice learning.

Healing and Wellbeing for Women and Human Rights Defenders

Recognizing the psychological toll of long-term activism, AJAR facilitated retreats and wellbeing workshops across Indonesia. These spaces nurtured resilience, mutual care, and trauma healing among women survivors and defenders.

Preserving Historical Memory through Documentation

AJAR expanded its documentation of torture sites in Aceh and Pulau Buru, integrating survivor testimonies, archival materials, and youth-led digital storytelling to strengthen collective memory and advocacy for non-recurrence.