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Indonesia holding back on UN review of rights record
Despite Indonesia's openness to recommendations during the fourth cycle of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) last week, rights groups took issue with its selective tendencies and lack of enforcement.
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Human rights activists hold a rally in front of the State Palace in Jakarta, demanding justice for past human rights abuses in this undated photo. (The Jakarta Post/Dhoni Setiawan)
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rogress on the peer review of Indonesia’s human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council this year has been hampered by lack of enforcement and ambition, although the delegation in Geneva, Switzerland has shown support of the many recommendations made by fellow UN member countries in the latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle held last week.
Specifically, rights groups have argued that the protection of civic space remains a big unanswered question, with the selective choice of supported recommendations and a lack of firm enforcement of previously supported ones are among the issues worth noting this year.
Last week, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Indonesia’s fourth cycle UPR Report at the council’s 52nd session in Geneva.
Indonesia’s deputy permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Grata Endah Werdaningtyas, said that Indonesia supported 205 recommendations, took note of 59 recommendations and partially supported five recommendations it had received during the peer review of Indonesia’s human rights record.
She said that this time Indonesia supported 74 percent more recommendations it had received from UN member countries than during the previous cycle.
“This is not only progress, but also testament to the Indonesian government’s firm commitment to improving and ensuring the rights of its citizens,” Grata said in a statement last Tuesday.
