TRC Korean visit

Ruas - We must learn to South Korea. At the time the Law Commission of Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC Act) Indonesia being debated, which eventually canceled by the Constitutional Court in 2007, South Korea has established the TRC in 2005. Secretariat Syarikat Indonesia Yogyakarta had the honor of the TRC Commissioner visited South Korea on May 28, 2009 before. The delegation consisted of Hyung Wook Kang, Secretary-General, and Commissioner Kim Sung Soo and Park Lane Gae. Before you come to the Syarikat Indonesia, Korea Truth Commission representatives held discussions in Pusdep Sanata Darma Yogyakarta with the theme "Human Rights Violations of the past towards reconciliation".

During discussions held in light Syarikat Indonesia, South Korea Truth Commission explained about the background of the establishment of the TRC. Post-event Jeju on April 3, 1948 to the election of President Lee Myun Bak in December 2007, South Korea suffered massacres Gwanju community. TRC of Korea was established in December 2005 by President Roh Moo Hyun.
TRC South Korea working on the scope of the investigation are: mass murder and violence on Human Rights. While efforts to make their own truth and reconciliation carried out from 2008. Until July 2008 the TRC South Korea to accept the petition as many as 10,949 new cases and 3141 that can be investigated thoroughly.

On that occasion the Korean Truth Commission also discussed with the entire staff of Syarikat Indonesia, the work is in the States for advocacy and grass-roots reconciliation in 1965 victims. TRC South Korea had seen the documentary "Gift For Mom".

After the abolition of the TRC Act in Indonesia, we do not know what will happen next with the fate of millions of victims of human rights violations. Hopefully there's a way.
(Rafika Husniyati)