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His arrest will likely go down in history as one of the worst blunders made by the National Police in their war against fake news and online hate speech, the ailments of the digital world that activists say are used by the powers that be as a pretext to undercut civil rights.
March 24 is the International Day for the Right to Truth and Dignity of Victims —a day to remember the truth about mass human rights violations- -- who were the victims, what were their root causes, how did the violations become so massive and how did we as a society deal with them.
Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) deputy director Wahyudi Djafar said the Netherlands’ apology to Indonesia for its excessive violence in the past could be a lesson and motivation for the government to do the same for victims of past human rights violations and their families in this country.
“We need to look at [the case] correctly. It must be seen properly because it was not a structured, systematic event. There were no direct orders from those in charge,” Moeldoko told journalists at the Presidential Staff Office in Central Jakarta on Monday.
Indonesia's military shot dead four students in the country's restive Papua region during 2014 protests and carried out "gross human rights violations", a commission investigating the uprising concluded Monday.
