Congress United States (U.S.), Human Rights Commission will be hearing
about the condition of Human Rights (HAM) in Indonesia on Thursday, May
23, 2013 10:00 to 12:00 pm located next to Room 2261 of the Rayburn
House Office Building.
Release received such www.majalahselangkah.com, this session is open to
members of Congress, Congressional staff, media and the general public
interested in human rights yag. "This session will review the situation
of human rights in Indonesia and U.S. foreign policy with a view to the
presidential and parliamentary elections in Indonesia in 2014," he
wrote.
Octovianus Mote, Papua Peace Negotiator invited to this hearing to
testify about the condition of human rights in West Papua. Mote
Octovianus given time to testify on the second panel.
"Conditions will be a discussion of human rights in the U.S. Congress. I
will give testimony.'s Will be open to the public for them happened to
be around DC on that day," said Mote Octovianus to
www.majalahselangkah.com.
Those who will speak at the hearing on the panel I was Deputy Assistant
Secretary Dan Baer, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S.
State Department and Susan Sutton, Director, Office of Maritime
Southeast Asia, the U.S. State Department.
While the panel II John Sifton, Asia Advocacy Director, Human Rights
Watch, T. Kumar, International Advocacy Director, Amnesty International
USA, Sri Suparyati, Deputy Coordinator, Commission for Missing Persons
and Victims of Violence (KontraS), and Octovianus Mote, University
Fellow at Yale Law School and a former Reuters journalist.
The trial was held after the reform because Indonesia has undergone many
changes in the field of human rights, including the decentralization of
power to local governments have given the progress in various fields.
Also considered the role of the military in domestic affairs and
internal security has improved.
Even so, the United States Congress assess the human rights situation in
Indonesia requires more progress. Indonesian military and police who
maintain a sense of impunity in some parts of the country, particularly
in Papua.
It is said, cases of unlawful killings, arbitrary arrests and detention
widely reported between July 2011 and June 2012 and violent freedom of
expression, especially in areas with pro-independence movement in Papua
such as increased. (MS)
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