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Rights group have urged the Indonesian government not to deny the true state of the country’s human rights record when it presents a report before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) later this week.

The Indonesian delegation, comprising government officials and representatives of a number of rights groups, is scheduled to present a report on the condition of the country’s human rights at the UNHRC’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 23.

Your comments:

Telling the truth is not exactly what is in the mind of the government because it sheds a bad light
on what is really going on in the country.

To give you an example: Regularly, volunteers are checking with the population about their disposable income.

In East Java, it showed that the average income was decreasing and they reported that to the authorities.

They were told to go back and fiddle the figures because they shed the wrong light on reporting Indonesia to the United Nations (UN).

Jorith Arbier