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Comments on other issues: Govt forms team to settle past rights abuses
Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno - JP/Jerry AdigunaMay 22, p2President Joko âJokowiâ Widodoâs administration has decided to establish a non-judicial mechanism to resolve past human rights abuses in the absence of solid ground on which to settle the cases legally
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Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno - JP/Jerry Adiguna
May 22, p2
President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's administration has decided to establish a non-judicial mechanism to resolve past human rights abuses in the absence of solid ground on which to settle the cases legally.
Speaking after a closed-door meeting with Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno, National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti, National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) commissioner Nur Kholis and former Constitutional Court chief justice Jimly Asshiddiqie, Attorney General M. Prasetyo announced that the government was planning to establish a reconciliation committee to seek resolutions to past human rights abuses.
Your comments:
No crimes, no atrocities, no abuses of power must go unpunished. Everyone must be held accountable, including trial in absentia of those deceased. I welcome this new initiative to resolve, uncover and address past wrongdoings by government leaders once in power.
This whole exercise is good to develop a national conscience and sense of accountability, increasing the importance and supremacy of the law. This is backed by good intentions, but it will be all futile if it's only limited to good intentions or to score political gains. Regardless of the committee's legal status and authority, the bottom line is the outcome.
I would like to see televised public trials, punishments meted out, such as prison or incarceration, monetary compensation and demotion or the stripping of ranks, including of those deceased.
James Waworoendeng
Another new government, another new assembled team of investigators. Just admit that they can't and won't deliver justice. Enough of this hypocrisy.
Pedrwo Gonzales
The Indonesian authorities have long proved unwilling or incapable of delivering independent and impartial investigations into human-rights violations. They have constantly failed to hold security forces to account.
Jokowi's administration has decided to establish a non-judicial mechanism. Now let's see? Is that using current judges who receive vast amounts of money from defendants and have them sent to the firing squad? Or perhaps it will be the administrative courts that are unable to make any decisions.
Mitch
I assume there are advantages and disadvantages to being a non-judicial body on this one. Hopefully, something meaningful can finally happen and this country can start the real reformasi.
L. Millar
To be fair, given the entrenched power of the human rights abusers (given that reform in 1998 did not really happen) a judicial resolution was never on the cards and I never expected it of Jokowi.
However, I had certain minimal expectations of Jokowi, including not aiding the House of Representatives in its quest to restore the New Order.
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