Govt shows no progress on human rights: NGO

An activist says that the government’s attempts to probe previous human rights violations is going nowhere.

Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) Official Yatti Anggraeni said the government lacked the political will to reveal the masterminds and military officers behind rights
violations.

“We, together with the families of the victims of the human rights violations, are staging a mass rally in the front of the State Palace, demanding that the government uphold justice,” she said as quoted by
kompas.com news portal.

Dozens of people from the Human Rights Victims Association and Kontras gathered at the State Palace on Sunday, demanding that the government  tackle human rights violations such as the Talang Sari incident, the abduction of dozens student activists in 1998 and the murder of human rights activist Munir.