“Golkar is Guilty of Human Rights Violation”
Thursday, 03 April, 2008 | 14:17 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The investigation into the human rights violation in the New-Order is enough for historic revision. “If we want to bring up all human rights incidents in the New-Order period, there will be revision and distortion to our history,” said Defense Minister, Juwono Sudarsono at the state palace in Jakarta yesterday.

Juwono together with the coordinator from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Usman Hamid; and former member of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), Zoemrotin, discussed the human rights violation by dividing personal and professional responsibility of the Indonesian military.

According to Juwono, every military operation in the past can be considered as a violation. “All legal action from previous governments can be considered a violation,” he said.

Systemically, the Commission on Human Rights needs to emphasize the personal and institutional responsibilities. “For institutional responsibility, Golkar is then guilty,” Juwono said.

Juwono interpreted the constitutional court's decision in February about the retroactive approach can be done by limiting the place and time of the incident. “I think it is fine as long as there is ideology-based sensitivity in selecting the representative,” Juwono said. “I refer to Article No. 28 from our basic regulation of 1945 (UUD 1945).”

The meeting was held two days ago, and has not obtained any agreement. According to the activists, the Commission asks for a more detailed investigation.

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