Terminal Spin?
Confusion in the selection of members of the National Human Rights Commission is posing an ever-increasing threat to the independence of the institution. How to get independent members is the problem.
October 2, 2001
A number of names that have passed the first screening of candidates for the commission raise questions with the public. Chairman of the Indonesian Journalists Association of Reform (PWI Reformasi), Budiman S. Hartoyo, for one, sees Sofyan Lubis as unfit for a candidacy, the reason being that he was responsible for the muzzling of a number of mass media in the New Order era. At one time he barred 13 journalists from returning to their profession ...