This statement is interesting and can be utilized as a good opportunity to
encourage the strengthening of Komnas HAM’s role in ensuring how human rights are
integrated into the process and outcome of the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) achievement in Indonesia. 6 Optimizing Komnas HAM’s role in the SDGs
needs to use “the ways and working methods”7 which are expected to continue even
after COVID-19 pandemic ends in the future. This is not only in the technical context
of the work method, but also with regard to substance, namely how the SDGs are
integrated into the carrying out of the functions, duties, and authorities of Komnas
HAM, both in terms of the advancement and enforcement of human rights, as well as
supporting units such as the General Bureau as well as Planning, Internal Monitoring,
and Cooperation Bureau.
2.
Sustainable Development Goals in the 2020 Annual
Report of the National Commission on Human Rights
2.1.
Explicit Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals have been discussed by Komnas HAM in
its annual report since the 2017 annual report until now.8 The discussion on the SDGs
in the 2020 Annual Report of the National Commission on Human Rights is specifically
dedicated and located in a special sub-chapter entitled “The Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and Human Rights Team”.9 The sub-chapter “Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and Human Rights Team” is in the “Special Team Formed by the
Plenary Session” under the Chapter “Advancement and Enforcement of Human
Rights: Achievements and Challenges”. 10 The 3-page sub-chapter (not fully three
pages) reports Komnas HAM activities in 2020 and also several activities that end in
2021.11
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For suggestions on strengthening Komnas HAM’s position on the SDGs implementation in Indonesia,
see in general: (1) 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); 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” (n. 3).
7 Komnas HAM 2020 Annual Report (n. 1), translated by authors, xviii.
8 See for instance: (1) Tim Penyusun Laporan Tahunan Komnas HAM 2017, “Laporan Tahunan
Komnas HAM 2017” [Komnas HAM 2017 Annual Report] (2018) (hereinafter: “Komnas HAM 2017
Annual Report”), 42-43 and 91; (2) Tim Penyusun Laporan Tahunan Komnas HAM 2018, “Laporan
Tahunan Komnas HAM 2018” [Komnas HAM 2018 Annual Report] (2019) (hereinafter: “Komnas HAM
2018 Annual Report”), 54 and 91; (3) Tim Penyusun Laporan Tahunan Komnas HAM 2019, “Laporan
Tahunan Komnas HAM 2019” [Komnas HAM 2019 Annual Report] (2020) (hereinafter: “Komnas HAM
2019 Annual Report”), 36, 94-95, 110, 114-116, 118, and 120; and (4) Komnas HAM 2020 Annual
Report (n. 1), translated by authors, 82-84.
9 Komnas HAM 2020 Annual Report (n. 1), translated by authors, iv.
10 Ibid., translated by authors.
11 Ibid., 82-84.
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