Komnas HAM
Wanted: A Tiger with Teeth

The DPR’s Legal Affairs Commission begins selection of candidates for members of the National Human Rights Commission.

June 19, 2007

ENNY Soeprapto was quite self-confident when his turn came to enter the room of the House of Representatives (DPR) Legal Affairs Commission. Wearing a batik shirt and bringing with him a briefcase containing a bundle of articles on human rights, the 74-year-old man tried to sit upright before some 30 members of the Commission. Enny is one of the 43 people currently “fighting” to become a member of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas

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