Indonesian: Pressure on Goverment to Investigate Activist Kidnappings

The House of Representatives has agreed to push the government to act on past cases of activists who went missing during the tumultuous political period from 1997 to 1998, the last years in the long rule of former President Suharto.

The recommendations as summarized by Mugiyanto Sipin, the chairman of the Indonesian Association of Families of the Disappeared (Ikohi), are as follow:

1. The President sets up ad hoc human rights court

2. The President and other related bodies seek the fate and whereabouts of the 13 disappeared persons

3. The President provides rehabilitation and compensation to the families of victims

4. The government ratify the Convention on Enforced Disappearances

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Pressure on Indonesian Goverment to Investigate Activist Kidnappings

The Jakarta Globe