Renewable energy policies
through down-streaming
actually result in eco-social
injustice in communities
in the epicenter of nickel.
Komnas HAM RI seeks to
respond to the impact of
investment through a series
of activities in 2023 to investigate the impact of development and investment
that threaten human rights
and the environment. This
activity is directed as an ef-
Komnas HAM RI views that investment politics aimed at creating a market-friendly policy ecosystem actually
increases the asymmetric relationship
between investors and affected communities. Based on this situation, Komnas HAM RI urges the Government to
take appropriate steps to reduce the
impact of mining investment on human rights and the environment. In
this context, Komnas HAM pushes
for an amnesty for the criminalization
of human rights defenders’ activism.
Furthermore, in 2023, Komnas HAM
prepared an SNP on Business and Human Rights. This SNP encourages corporations to comply with sustainability
principles and apply human rights due
diligence to investigate the potential
and actual impact of business activities on climate change.
F. Justice for the Victims of Gross Human Rights Violations
In his political campaigns during the
2014 and 2019 presidential elections,
President Joko Widodo vowed to resolve past human rights violations.
However, during his two terms of leadership, this political promise has not
been fulfilled. Then, towards the end
fort to encourage investor
commitment to calculate
the impact of investment
on human rights and a
healthy, clean, and sustainable environment.
of his administration, the President
formed a Non-Judicial Resolution
Team for Past Gross Human Rights
Violations (PPHAM). The PPHAM team
was established through Presidential Decree Number 17 of 2022. This
initiative is a complementary form
of various mechanisms for resolving
the gross human rights violations and
efforts to realize transitional justice.
At the same time, the Government
should also encourage the resolution
of the gross human rights violations
through judicial mechanisms.
One of the violations tried during the
current Government period is the Paniai case. The court process for the
Paniai case has not yet been completed, because there is a legal cassation
effort. The Indonesian Attorney General’s Office filed an appeal against the
defendant’s acquittal at the Paniai Human Rights Court in Makassar in December 2022. However, the handling
of the cassation was hampered because the ad hoc judge to try it had not
been successfully appointed by DPR.
On the other hand, the files resulting
from Komnas HAM’s investigation
into a number of cases of the gross
human rights violations in the past are
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