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Introduction
This report aims to provide the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) in the 2020 Annual Report of the National Commission on Human Rights.1
The research approach that is carried out for this report is to look at how the 2020
Annual Report of the National Commission on Human Rights from the perspective of
the SDGs and what could be further improved, among others, by linking the
recommendations to Komnas HAM on “Research: Strengthening the Position and the
Roles of the National Commission on Human Rights in Supporting the Achievement
of the Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesia” published in 2021 2 and the
development of these recommendations.
In “Research: Strengthening the Position and the Roles of the National
Commission on Human Rights in Supporting the Achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals in Indonesia”, among others, it was recommended to the
President of the Republic of Indonesia for Komnas HAM to be given a role and position
as the SDGs supervisor in the context of human rights and to increase the capacity of
the SDGs within Komnas HAM. 3 The research also presented the form of SDGs
activities related to Komnas HAM’s mandate in implementing study and research,
dissemination, monitoring, and mediation functions.4
Ahmad Taufan Damanik, Chairman of Komnas HAM in the foreword of the 2020
Annual Report of the National Commission on Human Rights stated:5
Ahmad Taufan Damanik (2021): “The 2020 Annual Report
of the National Commission on Human Rights presents how
Komnas HAM must institutionally redesign the ways and
working methods in carrying out the functions mandated in
Law Number 39 of 1999 concerning Human Rights, Law
Number 26 of 2000 concerning the Human Rights Court, and
Law Number 40 of 2008 concerning the Elimination of Racial
and Ethnic Discrimination.”
See: Tim Penyusun Laporan Tahunan Komnas HAM 2020, “Laporan Tahunan Komnas HAM 2020”
[Komnas HAM 2020 Annual Report] (2021) (hereinafter: “Komnas HAM 2020 Annual Report”).
2 Komnas HAM, “Research: Strengthening the Position and the Roles of the National Commission on
Human Rights in Supporting the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesia”
(2021) (English Version).
3 (1) Ibid., 28; and (2) Komnas HAM, “Policy Brief – Research: Strengthening the Position and the Roles
of the National Commission on Human Rights in Supporting the Achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals in Indonesia”, 3-4.
4 Ibid., Komnas HAM, “Research: Strengthening the Position and the Roles of the National Commission
on Human Rights in Supporting the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesia”
(n. 2), 20.
5 Komnas HAM 2020 Annual Report (n. 1), translated by authors, xviii.
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