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Comments on other issues: Best solution to past rights abuses: AG

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The Jakarta Post
Wed, January 28, 2015

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Comments on other issues: Best solution to past rights abuses: AG

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Although President Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo'€™s administration has yet to formally discuss measures taken to end prolonged unresolved human rights abuses in the past, Attorney General HM Prasetyo has suggested ruling out the judicial process.

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Let Indonesia first show it is serious about human rights by first changing the death penalty to a life prison term for those on death row.

That is something that can have an immediate global effect in a positive direction. Then it will need to also address this issue in a meaningful way too.

Cahaya


The government is more concerned with protecting retired generals than encouraging these generals to acknowledge their mistakes in the past and ask for forgiveness from the families who lost their love ones.

Impunity of these generals and troops make Indonesia split and it will be a problem for the next generation.

Noakh Nawipa

Attorney General HM Prasetyo, passing a blanket statement like reconciliation is the best solution to settle cases of rights violations that occurred in the past is certainly an unfair statement to make.

Take the case of Munir Said Thalib, whose wife, Suciwati, openly remarked: '€œHe was killed because of he was striving for the promotion and protection of human rights.'€

Now you talk about reconciliation '€” surprisingly, Pollycarpus was set free by the Law Minister Yasonna H. Laoly on Nov. 28, 2014, (he only served 8 years of his jail term) and how will you reconcile everything with Suciwati (Munir'€™s wife) who is left standing, moaning in grief.

Who will say sorry to her and what kind of restitution will be made by the government? This case appears to be one sided, no?

Granted you have no experience at all in handling human rights issues, but at least there must be concrete attempts to justify your suggestion of reconciliation so that the parties who lost their loved ones are consoled and not left blatantly ignored and forgotten.

Luwanto

There cannot be any reconciliation without justice and punishment for the most prominent human rights abusers.

Attorney General Prasetyo just wants to protect the assets of his friends, retired TNI generals.

Jan Karl

And what does '€œreconciliation'€ mean in this case? That those who can be identified as having been the perpetrators are forgiven and will not face any punishment?

Maybe it means that those who can be clearly identified and are in some circumstances still in positions of power will be kept anonymous?

And basically the victims (I mean the ones who are still alive) and their descendants and families are pushed to forgive the sinners?

Sheik

Indonesia should learn from what Nelson Mandela did in South Africa. There is no genuine reconciliation without the abusers admitting their wrongdoings and asking for forgiveness from the victims.

A fair judicial process is of course a must; otherwise '€œreconciliation'€ will be merely a hoax.

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