Jakarta: Noted human rights group Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has praised the 2012 World Report issued by New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), saying it depicts the true human rights situation in Indonesia.

â??The international communities should not take the governmentâ??s one-sided claims about democracy and the human rights condition in the country as the only source. HRWâ??s report reveals a series of human rights abuses in 2011 which the government has been down playing,â? Kontras coordinator Haris Azhar told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.

â??The world must not be hypnotized by what President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono claims, particularly when it comes to human rights protection,â? he added.

HRWâ??s World Report 2012, which was released on Monday, concluded that use of excessive force by Indonesian authorities and attacks on religious minorities had been a lot worse in 2011.

HRW also criticized the governmentâ??s failure to end militaristic approaches in addressing conflicts in Papua while investigation into the perpetrators of attacks against religious and ethnic minorities had failed to be thoroughly carried out.

â??Incidents of sectarian violence are no longer isolated cases in Indonesia, but are taking place at an alarming rate,â? HRW deputy Asia director Elaine Pearson said.

â??The Indonesian government needs to reverse course and start prosecuting violence against religious minorities and replace the discriminatory regulations that only encourage such attacks.â?