Follow The Election Of Members Of The UN Human Rights Council For The 2024-2026 Period, This Is A Priority Promoted By Indonesia

Illustration of the UN Human Rights Council. (Wikimedia Commons/US Mission Geneva/Eric Bridiers)

JAKARTA - Indonesia is preparing a number of priorities if elected as members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in elections held next week, said the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations, WTO and other international organizations in Geneva, Febrian A. Ruddyard on Tuesday.

If nothing goes wrong, the UN Human Rights Council will hold a member election on October 10 in New York, United States, where Indonesia is one of the candidates.

"If elected, Indonesia will be a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the sixth time for the period 2024 - 2026," said Ambassador Febrian A. Ruddyard.

"This is a manifestation of Indonesia's commitment to continue to be active in various multilateral forums, including the issue of promoting human rights within the national, regional and global framework," he explained in a virtual press statement, Tuesday, October 3.

He further explained that if Indonesia was elected, it was hoped that it could synchronize the global human rights mechanism belonging to the United Nations Human Rights Office with human rights mechanisms in the region, so that there could be mutualism symbiosis cooperation.

"ASEAN is quite advanced with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) mechanism. The inaugural meeting of AICHR with the UN Human Rights Office was only held last week. Hopefully this could be a global mechanism," he explained.

Meanwhile, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia, Achsanul Habib, added that Indonesia's re-nomination is to ensure that the voices of developing countries continue to be represented, and encourage a multilateral approach compared to geopolitical and unipolar approaches.

"Indonesia's two concentrations are selected. First, immediately take concrete and concrete steps in terms of strengthening the capacity of member countries, technical assistance and capacity building," he explained.

"Secondly, the Human Rights Council is not only busy discussing geopolitical, civilian and political issues. However, it can also discuss things such as poverty, women's rights, to increase the campaign to prevent torture," he explained.

"Indonesia will remind the world about the Right to be Development," added Ambassador Febrian.