Visit Wadas Village, Komnas HAM Finds Many People Who Are Traumatized And Have Not Returned Home

Doc - Komnas HAM Commissioner Beka Ulung Hapsara (Photo: Rizky/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian National Human Rights Commission sent a team to go directly to Wadas Village, Bener District, Purworejo, Central Java to dig up information and find facts about the events that occurred on Tuesday, February 8.

During its visit on Saturday, February 12, National Human Rights Commission discovered the fact that there was violence by the police in securing land measurements for residents who had agreed.

National Human Rights Commission also received information that several residents had not returned to their homes because they were still afraid.

"Many adults and children have experienced trauma", said Commissioner of the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission, Beka Ulung Hapsara, in a statement received on Sunday, February 13.

National Human Rights Commission also found that there was a rift in social relations between residents who agreed and rejected the mining of andesite rocks.

Beka said that the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission Team would continue its efforts today, to ask for information from several other related parties.