'The handling of human RIGHTS cases in Papua
At gedung Bina Graha, Jakarta, Thursday, Wiranto said that Indonesia is improving as it looks from the corruption perception index, the index of legal development, and democracy index'Through the indicators set out in a democratic process, then we can determine the index of Indonesia's democracy, says Wiranto. From the democracy index, Wiranto said the level of democracy in Indonesia 'in general is still in the medium category' and added that there are fluctuations in some years along with the political activity in the form of election and the presidential election. 'Talking about voter participation, there are actually increased good enough. twenty sixteen it we, two, twenty, seventeen increased to be the, five. This is also an indicator that the level of democracy, the awareness of democracy, political consciousness among the the community increased. If awareness politicking increases, usually political participation also increased, said Wiranto. However, the democracy index can not be used as a benchmark a single that the condition of democracy in Indonesia is improving. Aditya Perdana, Head of the Center of Political Studies, University of Indonesia, assessing the implementation of the country not just limited to the corruption, law, and democracy, which is basically just the numbers alone. 'The democracy index it is a statistic that shows the freedom of speech, freedom of association, partisipasti political and so on. Actually from the side it is good, but if you look deeper there are so many issues that do not reflect what actually happened, said Aditya. These problems, according to the director of the institute Amnesty International Indonesia, Usman Hamid, is reflected in various cases of human RIGHTS violations and freedom of speech. In the field of human rights, Wiranto claimed that the government has sought to resolve the issue of violations of human RIGHTS in various regions, including in Papua.
'In the reign of Jokowi-JK, the conditions changed somewhat
I say that we are in earnest, not ignore, not slow, really wanted to. If you can please finish, I am more than happy, we more happy, government is happy. So don't until there is a suspicion that this intentional omission. We also want to finish quickly. But it turns out that we constrained always with problems of evidence and testimony, said Wiranto. The statement is considered to be the director of the institute Amnesty International Indonesia, Usman Hamid, in recognition that the Jokowi-JK government has failed to fulfill the promise during the campaign. 'This precisely is the recognition of the failure of the government of Jokowi and Jusuf Kalla in resolving the cases of violations of human rights.
President Joko Widodo expressed his commitment that the space of participation and public control should remain opened so that government agencies become increasingly accountable. Jokowi in the document Reported.
No one realized, with a heavy heart we had to say, said Usman. Usman refer to the events of the deaths of four young children and dozens more injured in the city of Enarotali, Paniai, Papua, on December twenty.
The incident occurred after the security forces -Police and ARMY opened fire on protesters angry over the incident of the beating of a child in Papua by MILITARY officers the previous day.
President Jokowi immediately issued a statement will thoroughly investigate the case of the shooting of this -cases of serious human RIGHTS violations the first of which occurred in his reign - by promising an investigation that is thorough. 'To this day none of the alleged perpetrators responsible are brought to justice. In fact, in two of August twenty-seventeen going back to the shooting by Brimob in the Village Oneibo, District Deiyai, Papua resulted in several people injured and one person killed.
On May twenty, the Minister of Of foreign Affairs in advance of the session of the UPR human RIGHTS Council of the UN stated that the investigation of the case of Wasior twenty and Wamena twenty, both in Papua, will be followed up by the Attorney general's office.
However, the Commissioner of the national human RIGHTS Commission, Sandra Moniaga, admitted that 'the progress that there is a very small' although, in Ramadan, the president has a commitment to resolve the gross human RIGHTS violations. Previous years Komnas Ham and the attorney general's office only go back and forth exchanging letters. The national human RIGHTS commission of the last period for presenting the results of the investigation, by the Attorney general's office returned again. Continue back and forth, said Sandra. 'Now, the Attorney general's office opening up, can dialog. There is a process of Komnas Ham and the Attorney general's office to sit together. However, there has been no agreement to go further, he added. In addition to human RIGHTS cases in Papua, Amnesty International highlighted the closure of a number of places of worship of Christians and Ahmadiyya, charges of blasphemy against members of Gafatar, the dissolution of the activities related to the Events of, the issuance of Perppu Organizations, and the existence of political prisoners. After freeing political activists in Papua, Filep Karma, the President promised to free political prisoners. However, Amnesty International noted at the end of twenty fourteen there are sixty political prisoners, while until October twenty seventeen are thirty political prisoners.
