Resisting Indonesia's Culture of Impunity

2023-08-31

Author : Jess Melvin
Release : 2023-08-31
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Download or read book Resisting Indonesia's Culture of Impunity written by Jess Melvin. This book was released on 2023-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resisting Indonesia's Culture of Impunity examines the role of Indonesia's first truth and reconciliation commission-the Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or KKR Aceh-in investigating and redressing the extensive human rights violations committed during three decades of brutal separatist conflict (1976-2005) in the province of Aceh. The KKR Aceh was founded in late 2016, as a product of the 2005 peace deal between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). It has since faced many challenges-not least from Indonesia's security forces and former GAM leaders, who have joined together in their determination to maintain impunity for their respective roles in the conflict. Indeed, the commission would not have been established without the tireless work of civil society actors, including non-government organisations and other humanitarian groups. In Resisting Indonesia's Culture of Impunity, the editors set out to amplify the role of these civil society actors in the KKR Aceh and in transitional justice in Indonesia. Each chapter has been written by a team of authors, composed predominantly of commissioners and staff from the KKR Aceh itself, members of key civil society organisations, and academics. Further, the editors aim to scrutinise the KKR Aceh from the inside and analyse the establishment and operation of what is perhaps the only genuine state-sponsored attempt to implement transitional justice in Indonesia today.

Resisting Indonesia’s Culture of Impunity

2023-08-31 Political Science

Author : Jess Melvin
Release : 2023-08-31
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Resisting Indonesia’s Culture of Impunity written by Jess Melvin. This book was released on 2023-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resisting Indonesia’s Culture of Impunity examines the role of Indonesia’s first truth and reconciliation commission—the Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or KKR Aceh—in investigating and redressing the extensive human rights violations committed during three decades of brutal separatist conflict (1976–2005) in the province of Aceh. The KKR Aceh was founded in late 2016, as a product of the 2005 peace deal between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). It has since faced many challenges—not least from Indonesia’s security forces and former GAM leaders, who have joined together in their determination to maintain impunity for their respective roles in the conflict. Indeed, the commission would not have been established without the tireless work of civil society actors, including non-government organisations and other humanitarian groups. In Resisting Indonesia’s Culture of Impunity, the editors set out to amplify the role of these civil society actors in the KKR Aceh and in transitional justice in Indonesia. Each chapter has been written by a team of authors, composed predominantly of commissioners and staff from the KKR Aceh itself, members of key civil society organisations, and academics. Further, the editors aim to scrutinise the KKR Aceh from the inside and analyse the establishment and operation of what is perhaps the only genuine state-sponsored attempt to implement transitional justice in Indonesia today.

Stalled Reforms

2012 Human rights

Author : Amnesty International
Release : 2012
Genre : Human rights
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Download or read book Stalled Reforms written by Amnesty International. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the four years since Indonesia's human rights record was first assessed under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Amnesty International has continued to receive credible reports regarding human rights violations in the country. Amnesty International's ongoing research highlights serious concerns with regard to impunity; human rights violations committed by the police and other security forces; the criminalization of peaceful political activities; attacks and harassment of human rights defenders and religious minorities; religious and gender-based discrimination in law, policy and practice; and restrictions on sexual and reproductive rights. Amnesty International acknowledges that since the fall of President Suharto in 1998, Indonesia has embarked on a series of key strategic reforms aimed at better protecting human rights and enhancing the rule of law. The organization welcomes Indonesia's ongoing commitments and continued efforts to protect and promote human rights at the national, regional and international levels. However, despite these efforts, legal reforms in Indonesia have been slow and a culture of impunity persists for human rights violations both past and present. In this submission, Amnesty International comments on the implementation of recommendations accepted by the Indonesian government during its previous review in 2008, and highlights some of the organization's ongoing human rights concerns in Indonesia. The submission ends with a series of recommendations to the Indonesian government which, if implemented, would greatly improve the protection and realization of human rights in Indonesia.

Film and Everyday Resistance

2024-09-15 Performing Arts

Author : Marguerite La Caze
Release : 2024-09-15
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Film and Everyday Resistance written by Marguerite La Caze. This book was released on 2024-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical exploration of how modern global cinema represents everyday means of resisting authoritarianism and totalitarianism Václav Havel’s concept of “living within the truth” in an authoritarian regime frames Marguerite La Caze’s readings of international cinema, highlighting forms of resistance in which seemingly pre- or nonpolitical aspects of life—such as professional labor, exile, and truth telling—can be recognized as political when seen against a backdrop of general acquiescence. La Caze’s case studies cross genres, historical eras, and national contexts: the apartheid regime in South Africa, in A Dry White Season; post-Suharto Indonesia, in The Look of Silence; 1980s East Germany, in Barbara; the Chilean military dictatorship, in No; contemporary Iran, in A Separation; and current-day Saudi Arabia, in Wadjda. This book explores the films’ use of image, sound, narrative, and character in dialogue with the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Aimé Cesaire, Hannah Arendt, Sara Ahmed, and W. E. B. Du Bois to reveal how cinema depicts ordinary people enacting their own philosophies of defiance.

Roots of Violence in Indonesia

2021-11-15 History

Author : Freek Colombijn
Release : 2021-11-15
Genre : History
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Download or read book Roots of Violence in Indonesia written by Freek Colombijn. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jakarta, Sambas, Poso, the Moluccas, West Papua. These simple, geographical names have recently obtained strong associations with mass killing, just as Aceh and East Timor, where large-scale violence has flared up again. Lethal incidents between adjacent villages, or between a petty criminal and the crowd, take place throughout Indonesia. Indonesia is a violent country. Many Indonesia-watchers, both scholars and journalists, explain the violence in terms of the loss of the monopoly on the means of violence by the state since the beginning of the Reformasi in 1998. Others point at the omnipresent remnants of the New Order state (1966-1998), former President Suharto's clan or the army in particular, as the evil genius behind the present bloodshed. The authors in this volume try to explain violence in Indonesia by looking at it in historical perspective.

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