Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 28-07-2014 Impunity

Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 28-07-2014 We wish you a very peaceful and happy Idul Fitri 1435H – Mohon Ma’af Lahir dan Batin

potential coordinating political, legal and security affairs minister, along with Impunity former Army chief of staff, Gen. (ret) Ryamizard Ryacudu. Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator, No crooks or human rights abusers in new Cabinet: Haris Azhar, concurred with Al Araf, saying that Jokowi, who will be sworn in as Activists president on Oct. 20, must remain aloof from suspect businesspeople and politicians. The Jakarta Post, 26-07-2014 On Thursday, Jokowi, through his website jokowicenter.com, launched an online Human rights groups have called on president-elect Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to fill poll called the “People’s Choice for an Alternative Cabinet”. In the poll three the new Cabinet only with figures whose track records are free from corruption different names are suggested for each ministerial post in a Cabinet of 34 or human rights violations. “Jokowi must realize that his victory was due to the ministers. Respondents can also propose other names aside from the three people’s support, thus he must not betray the people’s trust,” the program available choices. Jokowi said that the poll result would be taken into account director of human rights watchdog Imparsial, Al Araf, said. when he recruited his ministers.

He demanded that Jokowi avoid filling Cabinet posts with human rights abusers, For the coordinating political, legal and security affairs minister post, the poll has in particular ministerial posts relating to legal, defense or security issues. “Some presented three candidates — Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. individuals around Jokowi have been implicated in human rights abuses. Jokowi Moeldoko, former Army chief Gen. Budiman and former Jakarta governor and must not chose anyone implicated in cases such as the Talangsari killings, the retired general Sutiyoso. Tanjung Priok incident or the murder of human rights activist Munir,” he said in a telephone interview on Friday. Al Araf proposed Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) secretary- general Tjahjo Kumolo or Moeldoko as the best candidates to fill the post, while A member of Jokowi’s campaign team, former National Intelligence Agency (BIN) Haris opted for Moeldoko. “There is no problem with Moeldoko’s track record. chief Gen. (ret) Hendropriyono, faces accusations over his alleged involvement in But, the Corruption Eradication Commission [KPK] need to explain about the Munir’s murder and the Talangsari case. Hendropriyono is among the candidates meeting between Moeldoko and Rudi Rubiandini prior to Rudi’s arrest,” Haris touted to enter Jokowi’s new Cabinet. Indo Barometer pollster has named him as said, referring to the former Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKKMigas) chief, who has since been jailed for corruption.

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Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 28-07-2014 We wish you a very peaceful and happy Idul Fitri 1435H – Mohon Ma’af Lahir dan Batin

Analyst from the Indonesian Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies (LESPERSSI), Rizal Dharma Putra, suggested that senior PDI-P lawmaker and retired general, TB Hasanuddin, was best suited to fill the post. “TB Hasanuddin has experience in both military and political fields,” Rizal said.

For the defense ministry post, Al Araf and Haris suggested Rizal Sukma, a renowned analyst and executive director of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). ”Rizal is known for his commitment in reforming the defense sector,” Al Araf said. Rizal Dharma Putra mentioned Andi Widjajanto, a defense expert at the University of Indonesia (UI) and a member of Jokowi’s campaign team, as the best contender. “Andi has excellent academic Prabowo: foreign intervention background, but it maybe not enough. We need a minister with practical ability,” The Jakarta Globe, 25-07-2014 he said. Prabowo refused to admit defeat on July 22, the date the result was announced Elections 2014 by the General Elections Commission (KPU). Since then he has claimed “massive” vote rigging robbed him of the presidency. He has reported one division of the KPU to the police — in North Jakarta — and said that a garrison of foreign Jokowi reaches out to Prabowo hackers from South Korea found a backdoor into the KPU’s website and switched Kompas 23-07-2014 ballots to show people voting for Joko Widodo erroneously.

In his election speech on a Penisi boat in the harbor of Jakarta Jokowi has Prabowo’s brother and wealthy backer Hashim Djojohadikusumo indicated on thanked all voters for their support. He reached out to Prabowo in saying: “First Wednesday that he believed the hacking arrests were election related. “I’ve been of all I thank Mr Prabowo Subianto and Mr Hatta Rajasa who have become our told that the 37 hackers — you’ve heard about the 37 hackers, yes — I’ve been friends in this political contest. Let’s forget about the team 1 and the team 2, let’s told that the 37 hackers admitted to the police that they added … votes to get together for this country.” See the video for Jokowi’s rhetoric talent… Jokowi,” Hashim said. http://epaper1.kompas.com/kompas/books/140723kompas/index.html#/1/

Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 28-07-2014 We wish you a very peaceful and happy Idul Fitri 1435H – Mohon Ma’af Lahir dan Batin

Accusations of foreign intervention in the election has been a theme in performance of the KPU and the millions of people involved during the vote- Prabowo’s stump speeches — but the National Police told the Jakarta Globe that counting process of the presidential election,” Anies told the Globe. “The Jokowi- the arrests of the hackers were related to financial scams and that there was not JK team believes in the KPU’s credibility.” a shred of evidence of any electioneering from abroad. The Prabowo campaign, by contrast, believes the KPU is corrupt. “I was told that “It has nothing to do with the election,” National Police spokesman Boy Rafli we have lost 4.4 million votes in East Java mysteriously,” Hashim said on Omar said. “The arrest was about online crimes carried out in Indonesia but Wednesday. “And I’ve been told that 1.9 million votes mysteriously were added targeting people in China. We arrested them based on a report filed in China. All to Jokowi. So we want to find out. Just give us time. Just give us time within our of them have already been deported. “We did not arrest nor detained any rights — we have the right to a revote. Why the rush? We have plenty of time.” election-related hackers,” he said. Prabowo’s reaction self-humiliating While the KPU insisted that it was impossible to electronically manipulate the count, the head of the Indonesian association of information technology The Jakarta Post, 23-07-2014 academics (FAIT) emphasized that the Prabowo camp’s accusations had no basis Gerindra Party presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto humiliated himself on in fact. “It is impossible hackers can manipulate the vote-count tally because the Tuesday by rejecting the 2014 presidential election result and pulling himself out recapitulation was conducted manually and, of course, has nothing to do with of the election, claiming that the election was flawed and marred with hacking,” FAIT chairman Hotland Sitorus said on Friday. widespread fraud. The accusation of South Korean involvement in some grand plan to rig In the days after election day on July 9, Prabowo said he would accept whatever Indonesia’s presidential election brought a rare intervention from Seoul. decision was made by the General Elections Commission (KPU) with regard to the “The South Korean embassy strongly denies any allegation of the country’s result. “The 2014 presidential election overseen by KPU was riddled with involvement in the case. For further explanation please check with the National problems. It was undemocratic and went against the 1945 Constitution,” Police’s detective unit,” the embassy said in a press release on Wednesday. Prabowo said at his campaign headquarters, Polonia House in East Jakarta, on Tuesday. Prabowo voiced his statement as the KPU was concluding the final vote Anies Baswedan, the campaign spokesman of President-elect Joko Widodo, said recapitulation. In his speech, Prabowo instructed all members of his campaign he continued to have faith in the integrity of the KPU. “We believe in the team taking part in the KPU’s plenary session to walk out in protest.

Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 28-07-2014 We wish you a very peaceful and happy Idul Fitri 1435H – Mohon Ma’af Lahir dan Batin

Prabowo’s eleventh-hour decision was based on what he considered indications Soon after the announcement, Prabowo-Hatta campaign team member Amazon of foul play found by his campaign team. In the speech, however, Prabowo failed Dalimun announced that former Constitutional Court chief justice Mahfud MD to disclose any proof of the alleged vote-rigging. had resigned from his position as chairman of the Gerindra-led coalition’s national campaign team. In the speech, he said that he had five arguments to back up his claim that the election was rigged, with the KPU not being fair or transparent as the chief Amazon said that Mahfud had resigned because he was no longer needed for the reasons for his rejection. “A lot of the regulations they made violated campaign and that he would be replaced by Lt. Gen. (ret) Yunus Yosfiah, while themselves,” Prabowo said. campaign team advisors Djoko Santoso and Gen. (ret) George Toisutta would be appointed as his deputies. Separately, Mahfud said that there was no point for The former Army general also accused the KPU of ignoring recommendations him to remain on the campaign team. “There is only one presidential candidate made by the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) concerning foul play and left in the race. The election is over,” Mahfud said as he made his way out of the errors during ballot casting and vote counting. Wrapping up his speech, Prabowo campaign team headquarters, on Tuesday. Previously, Mahfud said that he would said that his fight against the KPU was done out of respect for voters. “We are accept the KPU’s decision if it said Jokowi had won the race and that he would not willing to let the mandate of the people be mocked and desecrated,” he said. return the mandate of leading the campaign team to Prabowo-Hatta after the announcement. “I will not get involved if it goes to the Constitutional Court,” Prabowo made his speech on a small stage using a normal microphone — as Mahfud said. opposed to the vintage kind he regularly uses — in front of a crowd of local and foreign journalists, while accompanied by politicians from parties in his coalition. Later on Tuesday, Prabowo-Hatta camp spokesman Tantowi Yahya said that Prabowo had only withdrawn from the KPU’s vote tabulation process and not Among those present were United Development Party (PPP) chairman from the race. “Let’s get things straight, Prabowo did not pull out as a Suryadharma Ali, Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie and the party’s advisory presidential candidate,” Tantowi said. council chairman, Akbar Tandjung, as well as National Awakening Party (PAN) secretary-general Taufik Kurniawan. Prabowo’s running mate, Hatta Rajasa, was Responding to Prabowo’s intransigence, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono curiously absent for the whole event. Prabowo even finished his speech without said that the losing side should be able to concede defeat. “The President wants mentioning Hatta. everyone to be able to accept the result in good nature,” Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha told reporters on Wednesday night.

Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 28-07-2014 We wish you a very peaceful and happy Idul Fitri 1435H – Mohon Ma’af Lahir dan Batin

Separately, Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin said he, personally Each newspaper report on the claim by Prabowo is accompanied by the sentence and as a legal practitioner, deplored Prabowo’s move. “It would be more that the former president of the Court (Akil Mokhtar) has recently been dignified if [he] followed all phases of the election in an orderly manner,” he said. sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption.

Meanwhile, Golkar deputy chairman Agung Laksono, also coordinating minister Crowd sourcing for ministerial candidates for people’s welfare, recommended against Prabowo further contesting the election result. “It’d be better not to take it [to the court]. The process has been The Jakarta Globe, 27-07-2014 objective and transparent. Let’s just accept the result,” said Agung. (tjs) Jokowi has opened part of his website Jokowicenter, as an internet poll of candidates for ministerial functions. Anyone can fill in his or her preferences. See Prabowo-Hatta team to Constitutional Court http://esurv.org/online-survey.php?surveyID=LKKJLO_6dcc89ce. Three generals Kompas, 27-07-2014 feature as possible coordinating minister for Political affairs, Justice and Security. Don Marut for Foreign Minister, Artidjo Alkostar for Justice and Human Rights? On Friday 25 July the Prabowo-Hatta team has lodged its complaint against the For 34 ministries there are three candidates each plus the option “other” and you Election Committee KPU with the Constitutional Court (Mahkamah Konstitusi, can even fill in your own name. MK) on the result if the presidential election. Prabowo was acoompanied by several leaders of his team. This time also his running mate Hatta Rajasa – who “I’m only asking for input [to create] the cabinet,” Joko commented about the had been absent during his earlier protests against the election result – was online poll on Thursday. “[The suggestions] will be processed by a team, using a present. Not present was the campaign teamleader Mahfud MD, who has been set of criteria. Then, [the results] will be sent to coalition members, before being president of the Constitutional Court and who has resigned from the team. sent back to the [Jokowi Center] team. “The final decision will be on me.” The Jakarta governor has repeatedly stated he was against the practice of The current president, Hamdan Zoelva said he will handle the claim as he would transactional politics and will not trade political support for a seat in his any claim. It is supposed that the MK has to check 52,000 result forms to cvome government. to a conclusion. The parties involved will be able to testify before the Court with an equal number of testimonies from the claimant and from the “accused” (the The unprecedented move could account for the relatively small size of his Election Committee KPU and the Election Monitoring Body Bawaslu). The coalition — compared to opponent Prabowo Subianto’s massive campaign decision will be announced on 21 August.

Weekly Update Human Rights in Indonesia – 28-07-2014 We wish you a very peaceful and happy Idul Fitri 1435H – Mohon Ma’af Lahir dan Batin machine — which will control a mere 37 percent of legislative seats when the Social and Economic Rights new set of lawmakers go into session on Oct. 1.

Compare that with the rival bloc of former Army general Prabowo, which will DPR passed a new law on mental health control 73 percent of the House seats if the coalition does not fall apart — as The Jakarta Globe, 13 July 2014 many observers have predicted. The House of Representatives has passed a law promising better treatment of See http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/president-elect-jokowi-calls-public- people with mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities, including outlawing the pick-cabinet/ shackling of sufferers — a common practice in Indonesia. Army leadership The Mental Health Law was endorsed by lawmakers during a plenary session in Jakarta last week, but has garnered little media attention amid the drama surrounding Wednesday’s presidential election. Indonesian health advocates No political arguments behind army chief dismissal have cheered the passage of the law, hailing it as a more “humane” and Kompas, 27-07-2014 “comprehensive” approach to the issue of mental health treatment. Indonesia’s previous mental health law was enacted in 1966, then superseded in 1992 with The surprising dismissal of the Chief of staff of the army, general Budiman, is the passage of a more general health law, later revised in 2009. considered not instigated by political arguments. His successor has already been appointed: lieutenant-general Gatot Nurmantyo. Budiman was not present at the “Many [mentally ill people] have remained subject to inhuman treatment, ceremony that took place on 25 July in the presidential palace. The commander including shackling and abandonment,” Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi said shortly of the armed forces, general Moeldoko said it was the usual regeneration of the after the passage of the law, adding it was expected to end the inhumane and army leadership. Both general Moeldoko and general Budiman are being “discriminatory” treatment of mentally ill patients. mentioned in connection with a ministerial function. See http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/indonesian-mental-health-law- passed-five-years/