Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD and Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly were in Prague, the Czech Republic on Monday to reach out to Indonesian exiles and speak about the program that aims to compensate victims of past atrocities.

The policy offers reparations and state-sanctioned benefits to those who suffered in 12 officially recognized historic cases of serious human rights abuses.

Karsidi Rantiminpoetro, a political exile who attended the meeting on Monday night, raised a question about whether the sitting government could ensure that its successor carries on the program. He also pushed for the judicial part of the resolution to run in parallel.

“Could the nonjudicial settlement program continue even when Jokowi is no longer in office? And could this intention to resolve past atrocities be continued to the next stage [of bringing the perpetrators to court],” Karsidi said.

But Mahfud was vague in his response, apparently trying to appease them with promises that the next government could not take back what has been given to victims of past atrocities.

He was referring to the benefits of nonjudicial settlements, such as visa fee exemption and a temporary stay permit (KITAS), as well as the option to restore political exiles’ citizenship.