JAKARTA, June 25, 2011 (AFP) – Violent physical abuse by police officers and military personnel towards civilians in Indonesia is still rampant and many victims are too petrified to testify, a human rights body said Saturday.

"From July 2010 to June this year, we found seven cases of abuses done by the military and 23 cases by the police," Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras) researcher Papang Hidayat said.

In January, a court martial jailed three soldiers for up to 10 months for abuse and insubordination after graphic video footage showed them torturing civilians in restive Papua.

In footage posted on YouTube, the soldiers were seen applying a burning stick to the genitals of an unarmed man and threatening another with a knife as they interrogated them about the location of a weapons cache.