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With a zero budget, Indonesia’s rights commission says it cannot investigate serious abuses
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With a zero budget, Indonesia’s rights commission says it cannot investigate serious abuses

From CNN Indonesia · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission says its 2027 allocation includes zero rupiah for investigations into three alleged gross human rights violation cases.
  • Commission Chair Anis Hidayah said the proposed budget would also limit complaint handling, proactive outreach, monitoring and mediation.
  • The commission is seeking additional funding that would bring the combined allocation for it and the National Commission on Violence Against Women to 247 billion rupiah.

Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission says it will have no budget at all in 2027 to investigate alleged gross human rights violations.

Chair Anis Hidayah raised the issue during a meeting with House Commission XIII in Jakarta on Tuesday. She said the commission and the National Commission on Violence Against Women had been assigned a combined budget ceiling of 133.5 billion rupiah for 2027. Of that amount, 94.23 billion rupiah would go to the human rights commission and 39.30 billion rupiah to the women’s commission.

Praise be to God, this is zero rupiah for next year.

— Anis HidayahThe chair of Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission highlighted the lack of funding for proactive complaint work.

Hidayah said the allocation leaves several activities without funding, including investigations into three alleged gross human rights violation cases. Monitoring human rights conditions on specific issues, handling complaints and managing case archives related to alleged gross violations would also receive no allocation.

The proposed budget includes 461 million rupiah to handle about 300 human rights complaints. But Hidayah said the commission receives an average of 3,000 complaints each year, meaning it would not be able to process them all. Proactive complaints work, usually conducted three to five times annually to reach people with limited access to the commission, would also be impossible.

The first impact is that the National Human Rights Commission will not be able to handle all complaints of alleged human rights violations, which average 3,000 each year.

— Anis HidayahHidayah described the expected effect of the proposed 2027 budget.

She warned that reduced field reach would restrict monitoring and mediation and weaken the depth of factual verification and the speed of responses in emergency situations. The commission would also be unable to investigate alleged gross violations in cases already designated for investigation by its plenary session.

Hidayah requested an additional 99.3 billion rupiah for the National Human Rights Commission and 14.9 billion rupiah for the National Commission on Violence Against Women. Together, she said, the requested total would reach 247 billion rupiah.

It will not be possible to investigate alleged gross human rights violations in cases that have already been designated in a plenary session of the National Human Rights Commission.

— Anis HidayahHidayah said the budget would block investigations into cases already approved for inquiry by the commission.
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Originally published by CNN Indonesia in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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