PBHI Wanti-wanti Session Of The Paniai Papua Human Rights Case Expressing The Elements Of Command

Illustration of the trial. (Antara)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) is concerned that the trial of alleged gross human rights violations in the Paniai case does not reveal the elements of institutional command and accountability.

The trial of the Paniai case will be held at the Makassar District Court (PN), South Sulawesi, on Wednesday, September 21.

"If this does not exist, then this is the same as the general crime," said PBHI Chairman Julius Hebrew when met at the Judicial Commission (KY) Office in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, September 20.

Representatives of PBHI management together with KontraS, YLBHI, and Amnesty International Indonesia came to the KY Office for an audience related to monitoring the Paniai Court of Human Rights which will be held at the Makassar District Court with the accused IS.

Julius said, from the results of the investigation conducted by Komnas HAM as submitted to the Attorney General's Office, the civil society coalition did not see any elements of the command, including institutional accountability for the Paniai case.

"So the uniform is the human rights court, but actually the material does not meet the human rights element or shows the element of human rights," he said.

This happened due to elements of the command and institutional liability not being dragged into or included in the case. "This is what we are worried about during the trial of the Paniai case," he added.

He reminded that the panel of judges with the main task of exploring material truth should not explore material truth in the context of human rights.

Julius said that the civil society coalition also suspected that there could be a main actor, but was not dragged or touched in the 2014 bloody incident.

If the concerns of the civil society coalition are not responded to, Julius said there is the potential for legal impunity for perpetrators and repetition or repetitive due to the absence of institutional reform.