THE issuing of a regulation on the granting of compensation, restitution, and assistance to witnesses and victims of human right violation was initially received as good news by Bedjo Untung. The chairman of the 1965 Murder Victims Research Foundation (YPKP 1965) hoped that with the issuance of Government Regulation No. 35/2020, which was an amendment to Government Regulation No. 7/2018, the state would compensate the losses suffered by victims of