Mahfud MD: We Have 13 Violations Cases, 9 Cases Existed Before The Human Rights Court Law Was Born

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD said that currently there were 13 cases of human rights violations submitted by the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM). Of these, nine cases were carried out before the law governing human rights courts was enacted.

This was conveyed by Mahfud after holding a closed meeting with the TNI Commander General Andika Perkasa at his office, Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta.

"We currently have 13 cases of gross human rights violations submitted by Komnas HAM to us. Of these 13, nine were incidents of human rights violations before 2000, before the birth of the Law on Human Rights Courts," Mahfud said in his video statement, Thursday. , November 25.

As a result of the absence of laws and regulations governing human rights courts, the settlement of alleged human rights violations must be approved or requested by the Indonesian House of Representatives. "So it's not the president who makes the decisions," said the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK).

If later the DPR considers that this recommendation needs to be followed up, they will be the ones to submit it to the president. However, this matter must be properly discussed first so that evidence can be carried out and a solution is found.

Even so, there are currently four cases of human rights violations that are currently under investigation. "(The violation, ed) occurred after 2000, during Pak Jokowi's time there was one event, namely the Paniai incident which was announced last June," said Mahfud.

The violation, he continued, occurred by involving the TNI. So that in the future, he asked Andika to coordinate.

"There is something that involves the TNI, what does it involve. Later, regarding TNI, the Commander will coordinate with us," he said.

"Anyway, in accordance with the provisions of the law, both the procedure and the evidence will be analyzed later, we will complete it, coordinating with the Commander in Chief, with the Coordinating Ministry, and the Attorney General's Office, of course, on the field," he concluded.