Once admired for its courage in the era of the Suharto dictatorship, the National Commission on Human Rights' (Komnas HAM) performance in the present era of freedom is slackening. Its popularity has been plummeting since President Abdurrahman Wahid's time and has not improved under Megawati Sukarnoputri aegis.

"Its performance rating has been very negative," said a source in an institution that so far has been donating funds to Kom