Atypical Progressive Acute
Kidney Disorders in children
due to EG/DEG contamination
The Commission identified violations of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, resulting in human rights
violations, including: (1) right to life, (2) right to health, (3) children’s rights, (4) right to justice, (5) right to welfare, (6) right to
social security, (7) right to information, and ( 8) consumer rights.
In the context of utilizing judicial mechanisms, Komnas HAM RI contributed
to submitting an amicus curiae case
for the Class Action case of Atypical
Progressive Acute Kidney Disorders at
the Central Jakarta District Court. The
amicus curiae was prepared based
on the findings and analysis of the
Commission based on business and
human rights perspectives. The Commission has also prepared a Business
and Human Rights Training Module
to strengthen corporate commitment
to embed human rights and environmental norms in business practices.
Furthermore, Komnas HAM RI develops activities to strengthen public
awareness regarding business and
human rights issues through various
social media to reach a wider public.
Agrarian conflict is structural in nature because it
shows corporate economic interests and government bias. Komnas HAM
RI complaint data shows
that corporate involvement
F.
Ensuring Agrarian Justice in
Handling Agrarian Conflicts
Affected by Business Activities
Over the last decade, agrarian conflicts have developed in the context
of investment in the extractive sector,
both for large-scale agriculture, mining and infrastructure development.
Agrarian conflicts arise due to the
state’s failure to guarantee the rights
to land owned by citizens affected by
investment. Land rights are human
rights because there is a connection
between land and other human rights.
Land conflict is a structural agrarian
conflict because it is caused by policies that violate people’s constitutional rights to agrarian resources.
in agrarian conflicts is not
free from the granting of
concessions by the Government. Based on the relationship between land, human rights and indigenous
communities, the Commis-
In 2023, to ensure agrarian justice, the
Commission conducted a study and
visited the customary forest area of the
Punan Tugung Indigenous Community which is threatened by the conces-
sion conducted studies and
direct observations on the
locus of agrarian conflict
which had an impact on indigenous communities.
sion of PT Intracawood. According to
the results of a study by Komnas HAM
RI, threats to customary forests can be
prevented if there is legalization that
recognizes the existence of custom-
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