Recommendations (A/HRC/7/3/Add.7, para. 7292) Situation during visit Steps taken in previous years (A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 and Information received in the reporting A/HRC/16/52/Add.2) period committed by police officers, including prepared. establishing Mail Box 777, SMS texting, Cell Phone, the Public Service Centre, the Care Centre for Women and Children and the National Police Commission. The National Commission on Human Rights and National Police Commission are amongst the institutions mandated to deal with cases of torture. The establishment of The Victim and Witness Protection Body has strengthened the existing mechanisms put in place to protect victims and witnesses of torture. 84. The Government of Indonesia should expediently accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and establish a truly independent National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) to carry out unannounced visits to all places of detention. Non-governmental sources: In 2009 Indonesia had not yet signed the Optional Protocol. Komnas HAM proposed to the The National Human Rights Indonesian Police to give Komnas HAM Action Plan (2004-2009) foresaw authority to visit police detention the ratification of the Optional facilities with or without announcement. Protocol to the Convention against Torture in 2008. Government: The process of ratification of the OPCAT has not yet been completed. The Government is closely working with other stakeholders to ensure a steady progress on the process of ratification. Government: In line with the ongoing ratification process of the OPCAT, in collaboration with other countries, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights is establishing a roadmap as an initial step to prepare a training program on Convention against Torture for law enforcement officers. The National Human Rights Commission and the Police signed a Memorandum of Understanding granting free access to police facilities. However, its visits so far were in reaction to complaints, and no Government: The Indonesian National Armed Forces fully support the work of the National Committee for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and the National Committee for Women to eradicate torture in accordance with Article 8 of the Regulation No. 73. Non-governmental sources: In 2009 the Memorandum of Understanding between Komnas HAM and the Police was scheduled for review, including a proposal by Komnas HAM to open up police facilities to unannounced visits and private interviews with detainees. The Indonesian National Armed Forces has stipulated regulations to prevent torture in line with the Regulation of the Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces No. 73/IX/2010 dated 20 September 2010 on Acts against Torture and Other Inhuman Treatment in Enforcing the Law in the Indonesian National Armed Forces. A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 117 85. The Government of Indonesia should support the National Commission on Human Rights and the National Commission on Violence against Women in their endeavours to become Indonesia was not party to the OPCAT;

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