Human Rights Violation Case In Paniai Papua Highlighted By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights, Mahfud MD Alludes To The Performance Of The Attorney General's Office

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD. (doc Kemenkopolhukam)

JAKARTA - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HAM) Michelle Bachelet appreciates the performance of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) in handling cases of gross human rights violations in Paniai.

This was conveyed by the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menkopolhukam) Mahfud MD in a virtual press conference on the YouTube channel of the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Thursday, June 16.

"When I met directly with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who is the former President of Chile, she expressed her appreciation to the AGO. He explicitly said that the AGO was more serious in processing the handling of gross human rights violations by processing the case in Paniai, Papua, to court," said Mahfud.

In a press statement regarding his visit to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN High Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, Mahfud emphasized that the AGO's handling of the Paniai human rights violation case was a form of the Indonesian government's commitment to resolving cases of gross human rights violations in the country.

Mahfud also explained that the Paniai case was the only case of serious human rights violations that occurred during the era of President Joko Widodo's leadership and was recommended by the National Human Rights Commission to be resolved by the Government.

"That is the only case of gross human rights violations that occurred during the Jokowi era. The other twelve, occurred in the past and were difficult to resolve. We will immediately solve this one," he explained.

On the same occasion, Mahfud stated that the issue of the UN Human Rights Council regarding the issue of human rights violations in Papua was not true.

"We are actually being provoked by unclear social media. If you look at the website of the UN Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the speech yesterday did not exist. Indonesia is clean of the Papuan problem," he said.

In the opening speech of the 50th Session of the Human Rights Council Session by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, he continued, Indonesia was not included in the list of 21 countries whose human rights developments are being referred to by them.

"The High Commissioner for Human Rights said that in the 21 countries whose human rights developments are referred to, Indonesia is not included in it," he said.