REKONSILIASI
Mantan Tapol & Masyarakat
Main Ketoprak Bersama

PENTAS ketoprak rakyat lakon “Karta Pokil” yang akan digelar Syarikat Indonesia bekerjasama dengan para mantan tapol ’65 dan masyarakat Kulonprogo tak hanya bertutur tentang bahaya AIDS tapi juga tentang stigmatisasi perempuan yang pernah dituduh makar dalam sebuah negara.

Pelaksaanaan Kovenan Internasional
Hak Ekonomi, Sosial, dan Budaya di Indonesia

Pada 30 September 2005 DPR dan Pemerintah  sepakat meratifikasi piagam penting hak asasi manusia (Bill of Rights) yaitu  International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights dan International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Proses ratifikasi tersebut dilakukan pada  28 Oktober 2005, dimana Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono mengesahkan UU No. 11 tahun 2005 tentang pengesahan Kovenan Internasional Hak Sipil dan Politik dan No. 12 tahun 2005 tentang Pengesahan Kovenan Internasional tentang Hak-hak Ekonomi, Sosial dan Budaya. Ratifikasi terhadap the bill of human rights ini tentu saja membawa harapan baru bagi kondisi yang lebih kondusif bagi pemajuan penghormatan dan perlindungan hak asasi manusia di negeri ini. 

By Budiawan

Mdm. Francois Mitterand’s visit

I had never dreamed before that the river near the village where I grew up was visited by the former first lady of France, Mdm. Francois Mitterand. It was February 2, 1999, eight months after Suharto stepped down following the mass student demonstrations and racialized pogroms in a number of big cities in Indonesia, Mdm. Mitterand and a number of French and Indonesian human rights advocates visited the river. Another group of visitors coming with them were tens of former political prisoners who had been accused of being involved in the September 30, 1965 events, i.e., the kidnapping and killing of six top army officers and a lieutenant. (Since the Indonesian Communist Party [or the PKI] was accused of having masterminded the killing, anybody having been associated with the Party was either killed or imprisoned without trials for years).