Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Prisons Yusril Ihza Mahendra stated that the Indonesian government under President Prabowo Subianto is committed to discussing the new Draft Law on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (RUU KKR) related to human rights. (HAM).
He explained that the effort is to continue the previous policy that was initiated during the administration of the 7th President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo.
“Then it has also been partially followed up, and it will continue to be pursued by the new government now.” “In the meantime, there is already a draft or concept of the Bill on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which hopefully adopts universal principles about TRC that have been studied from many countries,” said Yusril while attending the World Human Rights Day commemoration at the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights Office, Jakarta, on Tuesday.
He explained that although several articles were annulled by the Constitutional Court (MK) in 2006, the Government is still making efforts to discuss the plan.
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According to him, the bill will later serve as a strong basis for resolving past human rights cases, which have become difficult to find evidence, witnesses, and possibly the victims are no longer available.
“But such matters can be resolved through reconciliation based on the law,” said the man who is also a constitutional law expert.
Yusril added that the Government will explore or learn a lot to design the law from several other countries, such as South Africa.
The effort to discuss the bill is a form of the Government’s commitment to resolving past human rights issues.
“The drafting of the law will also be based on the values that live within Indonesian society, whether in customary law, Islamic law, and so on, which recognize deliberation, then reconciliation, and then mutual forgiveness and forgetting the problem, but it remains recorded as an event in society,” he said.
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