A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 120 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response time and space to effectively carry out their functions and come to a concrete solution of the issue before them without interference from the Executive, as clearly stipulated in the 1945 Constitution. The Government reiterates, as it has done on many other similar occasions, its opposition to the use of torture, whether as a means of coercion or punishment. As well as being a signatory to CAT, Indonesia has also provisions in its laws that clearly state that freedom from torture is a non-derogable right. Indeed, this is evident in the provisions of Law No. 39 of 1999 on Human Rights, in particular article 4, as well as articles 9 and 39 of Law No. 26 of 2000 on the Human Rights Court. The latter guarantees any violations of this right will be brought to justice. Moreover, Indonesia continues to do its best to assure the dissemination of information on the implementation and application of CAT and other such provisions within the national security services in order that incidents and tragedies such as those concerning Mr. Urpino do not occur. It is the Government’s belief that its local government authority will do everything within its prescribed authority to verify the facts of the case and determine the perpetrators and how they should be prosecuted before the law and whether it will be disciplinary, administrative or penal measures that will be undertaken. The provisions of national law however preclude the interference of the Government from matters that have been constitutionally set to be handled by the judiciary.

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