Penghargaan Yap Thiam Hien (Yap Thiam Hien Award) is an award given by Yayasan Pusat Studi Hak Asasi Manusia to people with contributions in human rights issues in Indonesia. The name is based on an

Indonesian Chinese Chinese Indonesians ( id, Orang Tionghoa Indonesia) and colloquially Chindo or just Tionghoa are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries. Chinese people and their Indonesian descendants have l ...

lawyer and a human right activist

Yap Thiam Hien John Yap Thiam Hien (25May 191325April 1989) was an Indonesian human rights lawyer. Life Born in Kutaraja, Aceh, Dutch East Indies, his father was Yap Sin Eng and his mother was Hwan Tjing Nio. Yap's family, living in genteel but reduced cir ...

. The award is usually given every 10 December since 1992. However, due to lack of funding, the foundation stopped giving out the award in 2005.

Winners

# 1992 — Haji Muhidin, Jhony Simanjuntak dan H.J.C. Princen # 1993 —

Marsinah Marsinah (10 April 1969 – 8 May 1993) was an independent trade unionist employed in a watch factory in East Java, Indonesia, whose murder drew international attention to the Suharto dictatorship's brutal repression of workers. Marsinah was ...

# 1994 — Trimoelja D. Soerjadi # 1995 — Jenggawah dan Ade Rostina Sitompul # 1996 — Sandyawan Sumardi S.J # 1997 — (No award) # 1998 —

Kontras The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence ( id, Komisi untuk Orang Hilang dan Korban Tindak Kekerasan (KontraS)) is an Indonesian human rights organization established in 1998 to investigate forced disappearances and acts of violen ...

dan Farida Hariyani # 1999 — Sarah Lery Mboeik and Mama Yosepha Alomang # 2000 — The Urban Poor Consortium # 2001 — Suraiya Kamaruzaman and Ester Jusuf Purba # 2002 — Widji Thukul # 2003 — Maria Margaretha Hartiningsih # 2004 — Maria Catarina Sumarsih # 2005 — (No award) # 2006 — (No award) # 2007 — (No award) # 2008 — Siti Musdah Mulia # 2009 — Yohanes Jonga # 2010 — Asmara Nababan # 2011 — Soetandyo Wignjosoebroto # 2012 — Majalah Tempo # 2014 — Anis Hidayah # 2015 — Handoko Wibowo # 2016 —

Aleta Baun Aleta Baun is an Culture of Indonesia, Indonesian environmental activist. She has been described as the Indonesian Avatar. She won the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for organizing hundreds of local villagers to peacefully occupy marble mining ...

# 2017 —Ahmad Mustofa Bisri, known as Gus Mus # 2018 — Eva Bande and a local group from Central Java, Sedulur Sikep

References

Indonesian awards Human rights awards {{award-stub