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(2) To carry out its function as disseminator as referred to in Article 76, the
National Commission on Human Rights is charged with and authorized to:
a. disseminate information concerning human rights to the Indonesian public;
b. take steps to raise public awareness about human rights through formal and
non-formal education institutes and other bodies;
c. cooperate with organizations, institutions or other parties at national,
regional and international level with regard human rights;
(3) To carry out its monitoring function as referred to in Article 76, the National
Commission on Human Rights is charged with and authorized to:
a. monitor the implementation of human rights and compile reports of the
output of this monitoring;
b. investigate and examine incidents occurring in society which either by
their nature or scope likely constitute violations of human rights;
c. call on complainants, victims and accused to request and hear their
statements;
d. call on witnesses to request and hear their witness statements, and in the
case of prosecution witness to request submission of necessary evidence;
e. survey incident locations and other locations as deemed necessary;
f. call on related parties to give written statements or to submit necessary
authenticated documents as required upon approval of the Head of Court;
g. examine houses, yards, buildings, and other places that certain parties
reside in or own, upon approval of the Head of Court;
h. on approval of the Head of Court, provide input into particular cases
currently undergoing judicial process if the case involves violation of
human rights of public issue and court investigation, and the input of the
National Commission on Human Rights shall be made known to the
parties by the judge;
3.
Thus, Komnas HAM has statutory functions which are: dissemination of national
and international human rights concepts, conducting research on various United Nations
human rights instruments with a view to recommending their ratification thereof or
accession thereto, monitoring and conducting inquiry on the implementation of human
rights and submitting views, advices and recommendations to the authorities concerned for
the implementation of human rights and conducting regional and international cooperation
for the promotion and protection of human rights.
4.
Under its statutory function, Komnas HAM can conduct a human rights monitoring
including to conduct an inquiry of the implementation of human rights ans also to monitor
the implementation of the international human rights in which Indonesia is party, in this
case the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).