In Search of the Truth

Nur Kholis, Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM), was stunned by the proposal forwarded by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) last April. In a meeting held at the AGO headquarters on April 20, AGO officials presented Nur with a plan to address past human rights abuses through the creation of a Committee for Reconciliationone that, conspicuously, lacked any fact-finding undertaking.

In other countries with checkered human rights records, past rights violations have been settled through a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (KKR). The AGO, however, said difficulty finding evidence and the deaths of the suspected perpetrators made the creation of such a KKR commission unfeasible.

July 28, 2015