The committee’s vice chair Yadh Ben Achour noted the endemic culture of impunity despite the country ratifying the ICCPR. He questioned why the Attorney General Office (AGO) had failed to proceed with recommendations from the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM).
Source/Credit: The Jakarta Post
By Yohanna Ririhena | July 12, 2013
Members of the United Nations Human Rights Committee questioned Indonesia on its commitment to resolve human rights abuses, protect religious minorities and the use of excessive force among state apparatus, at a UN review session on Wednesday.
The committee, comprising 18 human rights experts from across the globe, highlighted that the failure to enforce law and order resulted in rights abuses, during the first assessment of the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Their detailed and sharp questions touched on various cases including the murder of rights activist Munir in 2004; extra judicial killings in Papua; the 2008 Law on pornography that was deemed discriminatory against women and the LBGTIQ community; the implementation of Sharia law in Aceh; and the attacks on Shiite followers in Madura, East Java, on Ahmadiyah in Cikeusik, West Java; on churches as well as on a gay film festival.
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