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
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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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