Human rights violation can be committed by a state but thanks God Indonesia is not such a countryLondon (ANTARA News) - Indonesia is the most progressive country in strengthening human rights mechanism at national level and among ASEAN countries.
United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner chief for Asia Pacific Division, Rory Mungoven, said in a seminar on Human Rights Mechanism in Asia, organized by the University of Essex in cooperation with Indonesian Embassy in London on Friday.
Mungoven admitted that various efforts have been made by Indonesia at national level through the establishment of National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), and at regional level through Bali Democracy Forum and the strengthening of human rights in ASEAN.
The two-day seminar, conducted by University of Essex Human Rights Center at Indonesian Embassy building in London, was part of the 3rd Human Rights in Asia Conference, embassy spokesman Novan Ivanhoe Saleh said here on Saturday.
Present at the seminar were three speakers namely Rafendi Djamin, Indonesian representative in ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission for Human Rights; Dr. Suzannah Linton, international law professor at Bangor Law School; and Mervat Rishmawi, a Palestinian human rights activist who graduated from the University of Essex. Essex.
Meanwhile, Indonesian Ambassador to Britain, Yuri Octavian Thamrin, said the country had a high commitment to promote and protect democracy and human rights.
Therefore Vice President Boediono said in Jakarta recently that Indonesia was not human rights violator because it embraced democracy and practiced transparency.
"Human rights violation can be committed by a state but thanks God Indonesia is not such a country," the vice president said when opening the 3rd Coordination Meeting of National Action Plans for Human Rights for 2011-2014 at his office on May 25.
According to the vice president, the governments would punish people only for obvious reasons.
That`s why the vice president said that Indonesia had been chosen by the International community as one of the members of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Indonesia has been elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2011-2014 period.(O001/HAJM/O001)
(ANTARA)
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