are facing legal issues, primarily the death penalty. However, Law no. 24 In 2004 more
emphasis on placement rather than the protection of migrant workers, including the lack of
attention to the fundamental rights of workers and protection of women. On 22 September
2004 the government has signed the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families 1990. Even ratification of this Convention has
entered in (Human Rights Action Plan) 2004-2009. But until now the government has not
ratified the Convention. Komnas HAM recommended to the government to ratify the
Convention and, soon afterwards, to harmonize legislation with the existing convention to
ensure the protection of the rights of migrant workers. Komnas HAM also recommends the
Government of Indonesia to take diplomatic action and legal assistance to protect the
Indonesian Migrant Workers.
Achievement, Best Practices, Challenges and Barriers
13. Respect for human rights, especially freedom of opinion and expression, including freedom
of the press, the situation had improved immediately after the fall of Suharto in 1998.
Regimes Post-Suharto opened the faucet of freedom of the press that the meeting be closed
for 30 years.
14. Over the past few years, freedom of expression and opinion faucets meet the challenges and
obstacles that seriously enough. The turning point in the freedom of expression and opinion
at least some of the issues and reflected in the following cases: (1) violence against
journalists, (2) banning and burning books, (3) violence against the Papuans; (4)
criminalization of opinions on the internet.
a. About violence against journalists. According to data from the Alliance of
Independent Journalists (AJI) Jakarta notes that in 2010 alone there were 44 cases of
violence against journalists. Three of them are cases of murder, while other cases of
persecution, intimidation, threat, terror, deprivation of means of journalists, the ban
on coverage, and others. National Human Rights Commission asked the international
community to support the Government of Indonesia to ensure security and protect
the journalistic profession.
b. About the banning and burning books. On March 9, 2007, AGO officially banned the
publication and circulation of junior high school history textbooks and school
curriculum in 2004 that assessed cause unrest in society. Then in 2009, the Attorney
General ban five books on the pretext of disturbing public order and against the 1945
Constitution and Pancasila (Joseph, 2010). Throughout June to August 2007 the
government set fire to as many as 14 960 copies of the 13 publishers of history books
were burned. There are three sources of law used to ban books AGO in Indonesia,
namely: (1) of Law No. 4/PNPS/1963 concerning Security Printing the contents of
Order Can Interfere. Second (2) of Law No. 16/2004 of the Prosecutor, namely
section 30 which assigned the Attorney institutions to oversee the circulation printed
matter, including books, magazines, and newspapers, (3) the articles or hatzaai
artikelen spreaders of hate in the Criminal Code. Komnas HAM recommended that
the government revise these regulations to guarantee freedom of expression and
opinion.
c. About violence in Papua. The government forcibly disperse the Papuan People's
Congress III (KRP III) on October 19, 2011. As a result of the action, three people
were killed, others wounded, and a number of Papuan leaders were arrested. KRP III
is one expression of dissatisfaction with Papuans on the pattern of national