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View all search resultsAmnesty International, in its report Human Rights in Asia-Pacific: Review of 2019 released on Wednesday, said that setbacks to freedom and human rights occurred in Indonesia and followed a trend emerging across the continent.
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) claims to have found procedural violations by the National Police in the detention of demonstrators following student protests in September of last year.
Luthfi, whose photo clutching an Indonesian flag to his face has become an emblem of September’s student protests, was among the 1,489 people arrested during the demonstrations and among the 380 of whom being prosecuted.
A lawmaker once involved in the deliberation of the amendment of the Criminal Code proudly called the revision “a decolonization process” as the bill would replace the century-old law inherited from the Dutch colonial masters. But how is it that a bill that was said to dismantle the colonial character sparked student protests nationwide, which left five dead, in September?
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