Komnas HAMl Committee: The 2024 Presidential Election Will Use Human Rights Issues During Campaign

Komnas HAM Building/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Member of the Selection Committee (Pansel) for Candidate Members of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Harkristuti Harkrisnowo predicts that candidates in the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres) will use human rights issues during the campaign period. "This nation will face 2024 and of course human rights issues. will be very prominent," said Prof. Harkristuti Harkrisnowo at the socialization and discussion on the theme of Human Rights Challenges in the Next Five Years and the Strategic Role of the National Human Rights Commission in Jakarta, Friday, March 4. Therefore, he said, the campaigns of candidates who touched on human rights issues must be billed by the community if they are elected. This is a form of upholding human rights in the country. The Pansel has a big task on how to select or recruit the best candidates, tough, and with integrity and able to build a better Komnas HAM. Makarim Wibisono said that his party would try to see and explore further the capacity of the candidates, especially experience in the field of human rights. "We want this process to be transparent and accountable," he said. ) with the hope that Komnas HAM members for the 2022-2027 period can bring about more visionary institutional changes. Makarim hopes that the candidates can of course make new breakthroughs on how to resolve cases of past gross human rights violations. In general, the registration of candidates for Komnas HAM members for the 2022-2027 period has opened on Tuesday (8/2) 2022 to March 8, 2022. The registration mechanism can be done in two ways, namely online or online and via post. Especially for online registration, he said, prospective participants can access www.komnasham. go.id/seleksimember and must send physical documents via post to the Selection Committee for Candidate Members of Komnas HAM to the address of Komnas HAM Office J There are six stages that applicants will go through, namely administrative selection, objective written test and paper writing, public dialogue, psychology, medical tests, and interviews.