INDONESIA: 10 YEARS AFTER 'REFORMASI'
Former UN human rights chief debates with MEPs
Human rights - 10-06-2008 - 17:38
Human rights need to be at the centre of globalisation - this was the message former UN high Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson brought to parliament on Monday. Promoting her Ethical Globalisation initiative she told Members of the human rights sub-committee that it was important the poorest thought of human rights as a "birthright". Ms Robinson also stressed the need both for accountability and capacity building.
Indonesian freedom elusive for some
Aljazeera.net TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008 5:18 MECCA TIME, 2:18 GMT
Freedom was the rallying call of the mass protests in Indonesia that toppled Suharto from the presidency in 1998.Many of the thousands of political opponents imprisoned under his rule were released after his fall, but 10 years on, people are once again being jailed for expressing their opinions. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen gets exclusive access to interview a man sentenced a few weeks ago to life in prison for waving a separatist flag. Locked up for life for waving a flag, independence activist Johan Teterissa is Indonesia's latest political prisoner.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5FFDF8F9-6229-42A7-9F7C-D366E7C9E9FA.htm
TNI territorial function to stay despite decade of reform: Sjafrie
2008-05-26 14:01:53 read more
Indonesia needs second edition of Reformation Movement
Antara 2008-05-25 01:03:40
The reform movement which resulted in the ouster of authoritarian President Soeharto after ruling this world largest archipelagic country for 32 years had been facing away, as the political elite in the country failed to implement it thoroughly. Read Continue...
Indonesia's Road Towards Democracy - Ten Years On
Radio Singapore International
May 24, 2008
In Perspective this week with me ? Melanie Yip, a look at Indonesia?s democratic reforms one decade after the late President Suharto?s fall from power. Continue...
Indonesia marks a decade since fall of Suharto
2008-05-24 01:34:35 Listen:
More Indonesia Stories: Ten years ago Indonesia's late President Suharto stepped down after 32 years in power. That provided the backdrop for three days of rioting that left one thousand Indonesians dead and brought the New Order regime to its Continue...
Indonesia searching for direction
The Australian
Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta | May 19, 2008
US historian Benedict Anderson, the godfather of modern Indonesian studies, famously banished by Suharto for adroitly questioning the founding myths of the strongman's rule, wrote in a scathing obituary that "cynics joke that there used to be one big Suharto; now there are hundreds of little ones". Read More
Ten years on, Indonesia activists disillusioned
Khaleej Times Online (Reuters) 20 May 2008
JAKARTA - Indonesian student activists dreamed of far reaching political reforms after helping topple the often brutal rule of President Suharto, but ten years on, many feel their hopes have been dashed.Read More
Indonesia's 'reformasi' still a work in progress
The Age May 21, 2008
Mark Forbes
Another May tragedy possible
By Frans H Winarta
The Jakarta Post 23-05-2008
It feels like yesterday when in fact it has been 10 years since reform was declared by its leaders Megawati Soekarnoputri, Abdurrahman Wahid, Amien Rais and Hamengkubuwono IX in Ciganjur, following the fall of Suharto's New Order regime in 1998.
The promises at that time were of a democracy and government unblemished by corruption, collusion and nepotism (KKN), a professional military without the dual functions of the armed forces, the abolishment of extrajudicial agencies, the abolition of conglomerates, a people-based economy, human rights reverence, freedom of the press and other wishful promises.Read More
Measuring Indonesia’s Good Faith in Human Rights
MyNews.In Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:27:44 AM
Ch. Narendra
Having been criticized by some leading states in the human rights field such as Canada and the Netherlands during the Universal Periodic Review session, Indonesia’s good faith in human rights clearly needs to be questioned once again. The question that needs to be asked is does Indonesia know the quintessence of human rights?
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Amnesty says torture widespread in Indonesia
ABC News Wed Apr 16, 2008
Torture and other human rights abuses are still widespread in Indonesia 10 years after the fall of dictator Suharto, Amnesty International says.
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Torture 'unpunished in Indonesia'
BBC 2007/11/23 12:24:50 GMT
The police are rarely punished for the abuse, Mr Nowak says
Indonesia has a "culture of impunity" in the face of ill-treatment and torture, a senior UN official has said.
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