VIVAnews - The National Commission of Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) viewed that the government have to take two measures concerning enforced disappearances or abduction, especially on the kidnapping cases committed between 1997 and 1998.
"First of all, upholding justice over the cases of enforced disappearances as well as exercising the victims' rights," said KontraS coordinator Usman Hamid on Tuesday, September 1.
The second obligation that the Indonesian government must do is to take various actions possible which aim at avoiding enforced disappearances from happening in the future. Therefore, the Indonesian government is urged to show its commitment by ratifying the international protection conference.
"One of the Indonesian commitments to meet the obligation is to shortly ratify the international conference for protecting people from enforced disappearances," he said.
Usman weighed that the kidnapping and enforced disappearances cases in 1997-98 bring the Indonesian government to a condition where "two measures are obligated," said Usman.
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Translated by: Bonardo Maulana Wahono
