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The NCHR’s opportunity to be involved as a supervising institution and within a membership
in the SDGs National Coordination Team which supervise the human rights aspects must be
seen not as an additional burden for neither the NCHR nor the government, instead, it must
be seen as a chance to integrate the advancement and the enforcement of human rights
in a systematic and un-sporadic manner through very strategic sectors in the national level.
The correlation between human rights, the SDGs, and the NMTDP was stated by Sandrayati
Moniaga and Asri Oktavianty Wahono.208 It is true that the SDGs are related to the NMTDP.209
The NMTDP is related to the budget.210 The NCHR’s presence in the said regulations and
decision will strengthen the human rights budget for the NCHR.211 Furthermore, the
NCHR has the potential to receive the SDGs budget from other resources in the context
of regulations on the SDGs at the national level under the umbrella of the presidential
regulations.212 The existence of the NCHR in supporting the government to achieve the
SDGs by taking into account the human rights aspects, is an important matter, bearing in
mind that the SDGs have a very close connection to human rights, as elaborated in Chapter
2. As a reminder, as elaborated in Chapter 2, not all targets are relevant to the NCHR,
however all goals are relevant to the NCHR.
It is necessary to emphasize, that the spirit of the NCHR’s involvement must be in accordance
with the objectives and functions of the NCHR and to be more specific, it must be related to
its duties and authorities. President regulation, minister regulation, minister decision, and
legal products and policies regulating or comprising the SDGs must also comply with such
matter and must not be in contrary to Law 39/1999. The NCHR does not need to work on
issues that are not under its functions neither its duties and authorities. One of the strategic
activities that could be immediately conducted by the NCHR is the analytical approach to
the activities planning documents related to Goals 1-17 in the SDGs, and to ensure that the
planning does not violate human rights. Other activities and technical discussion on such
activity could be discussed more in-depth in the next research.
It is important to note that we all must remember is that the government actually has a
significant interest in supporting the NCHR to execute this role. As elaborated previously,
the government is responsible for the implementation of human rights in Indonesia.213 The
strengthening of the NCHR which is formally integrated into the SDGs and the NMTDP
is expected to support the performance of the government’s obligation towards human
rights.
208
Ibid.
209
Ibid.
210
See: (1) President Regulation 59/2017 (n. 1)., Article 2 and Annex, see also Article 16; (2) See in general:
Minister of NDP / Head of NDPA Regulation 7/2018 (n. 164), and (3) President Regulation 18/2020.
211
See: ibid.
212
See: ibid., President Regulation 59/2017, Article 19.
213
See footnote number 160.
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