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services and civil registration for religious minorities. Religious tolerance
materials are now part of school curriculum.
16. Violence continues between religious groups in the form of arson and
obstruction of religious observances of religious minorities. Police have been
hesitant to interfere in violence between religious communities.
17. Recommendations: (1) Finalize the draft law on protection and
encourage ratification in the Parliament within a period of 3 years. (2)
Urge the police to protect the rights of religious minorities and take
preventive measures against the occurrence of discrimination and hate
crimes.
6.
LGBT
18. Positive steps undertaken include implementation of HIV/AIDS
prevention programs by Government in cooperation with NGOs, accessibility
to services / healthcare and protection of the right to work and education.
Also, protection of marginalized and vulnerable groups and respect for the
values of diversity is included in the RPJMN.24
19. NGO programs have experienced interference, including Komnas HAM‟s
cooperative program to strengthen minority rights.25 Public anti-LGBT
campaigns are increasing, encouraged by anti-LGBT public comments,
including ministry representatives and members of Parliament.26 Also reported
are acts of expulsion, persecution, torture, arbitrary detention, prohibition of
conducting seminars and bullying against LGBT.
20. Recommendations: (1) Government to make a firm committment to
implementation of protection and respect of human rights for LGBT
persons pursuant to the Constitution and the Human Rights Act. (2)
Request that State apparatus refrain from public expressions of negative
attitudes towards LGBT groups. (3) Request the police to guarantee
protection for LGBT groups.
B.
Specific Groups of Human Rights Stake Holders
1.
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21. The Constitutional Court has corrected Article 1 (6) of Law No. 41 of
1999 on Forestry through Decision No. 35/2012 related to indigenous forests.
Several ministries and local governments have initiated policies and/or
regulations for the recognition, respect and protection of indigenous peoples.29
One of these steps are in line with the recommendations of the UPR related to
the guarantee of religious freedom for minorities, including indigenous
peoples.30
22. Violations of the rights of indigenous peoples continue. Very few
indigenous communities have been recognized by local governments, rights to
communal lands have not been restored since the period of colonial rule and
vast territories belonging to indigenous peoples are claimed as State Land.31
Indigenous community leaders and indigenous rights activists face
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