In Search of the Truth
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
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.
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
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