“The Attorney General’s Office Does Not Have Political Will”
Thursday, 03 April, 2008 | 14:23 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: International coordinator for Human Right Advocacy, Rafendi Djamin, stated the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) does not have the political will to finish the case of the human rights violation.

“This is a classic matter,” said Rafendi to Tempo in Jakarta on Wednesday night. There is a different interpretation on the Human Rights Bill No. 26/2000. This makes the agreement between the National Commission on Human Rights and the AGO that was released early this year meaning nothing. “We're back to square one,” he said.

The AGO returned four sets of investigative documents on the human rights violation to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) yesterday. Bonaventura Daulat Nainggolan, head of the Information Center of AGO, said that they had to return it because it was not complete. The returned documents are for the cases of Wamena-Wasior, the Trisakti tragedy, Semanggi I and II, the riot of May 1998, and mysterious kidnappings.

Rafendi said that the AGO actually has authority to complete the document. “The Commission is only responsible for investigation. The attorney should follow it up.”

Purborini