International Law

Comparative Intellectual Property Law: Indonesia
Simon Butt, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published "Intellectual Property in Indonesia: A Problematic Legal Transplant," in Indonesia: Law and Society (T. Lindsey ed.; Federation Press, 2008)...

ExxonMobil Case Involving Indonesia Killings Can Move Forward
Associated Press Indonesian soldiers patrol at Exxon Mobil Oil Indonesia in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia, May 18, 2003. ExxonMobil is in some hot water over its Indonesia operations. In 2001, eleven Indonesian villagers filed a suit against the company claiming that it’s liable for alleged killings, torture, rape and kidnappings committed by Indonesian soldiers [...

Time to Appeal Defamation Award to Indonesia High Court
What’s the penalty in Indonesia for writing negative things about its dictator? If you’re Time magazine, it’s $106 million. That was the damage award levied against Time back in August of last year for a 1999 cover story entitled “The Family Firm,” which alleged that Suharto, the former dictator of Indonesia, amassed a fortune of [...

CA1: another Indonesia Christian not oppressed
Santosa v. Mukasey, No. 07-2016. This opinion denies the asylum petition of another Indonesia Christian. This one with Chinese ancestry. The First says that he really didn?t establish persecution...

SG urges denial in Indonesia case
The U.S. Solicitor General on Friday urged the Supreme Court not to get involved, at this stage, in a lawsuit in U.S. courts by villagers in Indonesia claiming they were abused by guards at a natural gas plant operated there by Exxon Mobil Corp...

Florida Husband Avoids Paying Alimony By Moving to Indonesia Until Invited to a Florida Wedding
Florida Husband and Wife divorce. Husband is ordered to pay Wife alimony. Husband moves to Indonesia. Husband allegedly stops paying support. Indonesia apparently does not honor or enforce US court orders on support...