- 17 - Comment on Other issue (the accession of the OPCAT) 62. Komnas HAM conducted two workshops in Yogyakarta, Central Java, on 15 May 2007 and Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on 13 February 2007. The workshops were aimed to get an input on the ratification on Optional Protocol of the Convention. The workshops were attended by the police, judges, prosecutors, NGOs, the officers of the Correctional Institution (Lapas) and also academicians. The two workshops made several conclusions, as follows: (d) Recognized Optional Protocol to CAT is an effort to strengthen the preventive mechanism which is based on a regular visit to detention center to protect persons who deprived his/her liberty; (e) Recognized the objective of the OPCAT as to establish a system of the regular visit of the international and national body to the detention center to prevent the occurrence of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment; (f) Recognized that to achieve the objective of the OPCAT, thus a SubCommittee on the Prevention should be established; 63. Although some of the participant disagreed, basically the two workshops recommended Indonesia to accede the OPCAT with a condition the national legislation harmonized with the Convention and there is a preparation to establish a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), as mentioned by Mr. Nowak, mandated to conduct independent and unannounced monitoring of places of detention and to introduce in its legislation safeguards against torture and ensure that they are implemented. 64. In this regard, Komnas HAM recalls the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur on Torture, Mr. Manfred Nowak who also called upon the Government of Indonesia to expediently accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and establish a truly independent National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) to carry out unannounced visits to all places of detention. Komnas HAM also underlined Nowak’s recommendation which stated that the The Government of Indonesia should support the National Commission on Human Rights and the National Commission on Violence against Women in their endeavours to become effective players in the fight against torture and provide them with the necessary resources and training to ensure their effective functioning. 65. Thus, also inline with its statutory function, Komnas HAM declares its readiness to become effective player in the fight against torture, particularly to become effective player in the National Effective Mechanism (NPM).