Not Serious Human Rights Violation, Death Report Of 6 FPI Laskar To ICC Wrong Address

The reconstruction of the shooting of the FPI paramilitary troops by Komnas HAM some time ago (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

JAKARTA - Commissioner of the National Police Commission (Kompolnas) Poengky Indarti assessed that the reporting of the deaths of 6 members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) to the International Criminal Court (ICC) was a wrong address.

This is because the ICC can only try cases of gross violations of human rights as referred to in the Rome Statute. Among them, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and aggression.

Apart from gross human rights violations, continued Poengky, the ICC also received exhausted domestic remedies or crimes when the judiciary in the country concerned was unwilling to carry out its duties to hear cases (unwilling and unable).

"The ICC will not want to handle cases that will be, are currently or have been handled by the criminal justice system in the country concerned," said Poengky as quoted by Antara, Sunday, January 31.

In addition, he said, those who can litigate are members of the ICC, while Indonesia is not a member of the ICC so they cannot be complained.

Therefore, said Poengky, the step of the advocacy team to report the deaths of 6 FPI soldiers to the ICC was not correct.

"Based on the Komnas HAM report, it is clear that this case is not a serious human rights violation, so it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the ICC," he stressed.

Meanwhile, Komnas HAM Commissioner Beka Ulung Hapsara also believes that the FPI legal team's efforts to bring the laskar's death case to the ICC will end at a dead end.

This is because, he said, Indonesia has not yet ratified the Rome Statute, which is an agreement between countries under the United Nations (UN) which was formed on July 17, 1998.

Beka considered that the best step in resolving the problem of the death of the six FPI laskar members was at the Police.

Moreover, the National Police Chief, General Pol Listyo Sigit Prabowo, promised to follow up on Komnas HAM's recommendation, namely that the case of the deaths of six FPI troops was continued to the criminal court.