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PojokNasional . Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) gave a speech at the 2018 International Human Rights Day commemoration at the Komnas HAM office, Jakarta, on Tuesday. When JK was delivering his remarks, the coalition of civil society demonstrated in front of the National Human Rights Commission office. They were a combination of activists from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS), the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH), the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), Amnesty International and a number of victims of human rights violations. The action, which was attended by around 20 activists, demanded that the government of Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla complete cases of past gross human rights violations and other human rights violations. "Until now there are still nine cases based on the results of the pro-justitia investigation of the National Human Rights Commission that still hangs in the Attorney General's Office for a number of reasons, such as ins...

Rakyat Utama . The speech of Vice President Jusuf Kalla at the National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday  afternoon showed that he did not understand anything about Human Rights. He said that the state was also a victim of human rights violations. "Government officials were also violated by their rights. Of course we realize that those who violate human rights are certainly not soldiers. But on the contrary, an anti-government society that violates human rights," JK said. "The government is not only a position always accused of violating human rights, but also of victims. This is certainly a common understanding," he added. The statement that JK did not understand anything about human rights, one of them came out of the mouth of the Chairman of the Advocacy Division of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Muhammad Isnur. He claimed to be "surprised" by JK's statement. Isnur said there were three things that could be concluded from the statemen...