Abdul Hakim Garuda Nusantara: "KomnasHAM has been careful enough"

June 24, 2003

THERE is something unusual at the office of the National Commission on Human Rights (KomnasHAM) in Central Jakarta. Muhammad Mu'tashim Billah, head of the ad hoc committee to monitor the martial law in Aceh, goes around with a black mask over his mouth. He talks to reporters for hours without once taking it off. The public has also seen him like this on television news broadcasts and from newspapers. This is Billah's way of protesting after a v

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