KSP: President Jokowi Never Stops Efforts To Improve Performance And Enforcement Of Human Rights

Main Expert Staff of the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin/ANTARA

JAKARTA - Main Expert Staff of the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin said President Joko Widodo had never stopped trying to improve the performance of protecting, enforcing, and advancing human rights (HAM) in the country. "Actually, the President has never stopped trying to improve Indonesia's human rights performance, including the handling and resolution of past gross human rights," Ruhaini said in a media gathering related to holding a conference at the Komnas HAM Office, Jakarta, Antara, Thursday, October 13. Although some feel that the performance in solving human rights issues, especially past gross human rights issues, is slow, according to him, actually President Jokowi always reminds and emphasizes the government and law enforcers so that the issue is resolved. Furthermore, Ruhaini said that human rights is also an approach that President Jokowi thinks must be taken into account in government policies, both central and regional governments. "This means that there is a significant shift that what the government is doing is not merely public services, but must also shift to stronger, become protection and fulfillment of human rights," he explained. President Jokowi's view, said Ruhaini, is also in line with the initiative from the National Human Rights Commission and the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) which was welcomed by KSP to hold the 2022 Regency/HAM City Presidency Conference in Jakarta on 19—20 October. He hopes that the conference, which carries the theme "Strengthening Diversity and Inclusion in Creating a Resilient and Harmonious Indonesia", will be able to ensure that human rights mainstreaming becomes an integrated approach to bureaucratic reform and improve services from the central government or local governments. "Together, (it is hoped that this conference) will ensure that the mainstreaming of human rights is an integrative approach to bureaucratic reform and service improvement from the central government or local government," said Ruhaini. Previously, the Coordinator for Counseling Support for Komnas HAM Hari Reswanto said that around 65 to 70 regional heads would attend this conference. Regarding the series of events, Wawan (reswanto Day's nickname) said that the opening of the 2022 HAM Regency/City Preservation Conference on October 19, 2022. However, before that on October 18, 2022, a press conference will be held. At the opening of the conference, three institutional leaders, namely KSP, INFID, and Komnas HAM will attend. It is also scheduled that there will be a key speech from the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) RI Mahfud MD. "We are also trying to ask Vice President Ma'ruf Amin to convey something at the event," said Wawan. Furthermore, the conference event will hold three plenary sessions with a capacity of 300 participants which will be held for 2 days. "On the first day (October 19, 2022) there will be two plenaries. The first plenary theme, the main theme of this conference, namely Strengthening Diversity and Inclusion in Realizing a Resilient Indonesia and Harmonious. Second, about the good practice of the region in strengthening diversity and inclusion," he said. There are also five parallel discussions with various themes, such as regarding the regulation of rights to obtain justice, the national commission for disabilities, the Law on the Crime of Sexual Violence (TPKS), and child problems. On the second day of the conference, October 20, 2022, there was a final plenary meeting with discussions on the implementation of human rights values in districts/cities to strengthen diversity, inclusion, and sustainable development.