Recommendation to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR):
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To urge the GoI immediately open up access for humanitarian assistance to areas where
there are internally displaced persons (IDPs) and to guarantee their rights to be
respected, protected, and fulfilled;
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To ask the GoI about the policies and programs to facilitate the safe and appropriate
return of the internally displaced persons (both for IDPs in Papua and Lombok, or
elsewhere) to their respective villages and involve them in the planning. They must also
obtain restitution or reparation for the harm they have suffered;
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To urge the GoI to immediately resolve the root causes of the protracted armed conflict in
Papua, starting with the establishment of a special authority for Papua with an adequate
mandate and authority and to support the existing Peacefull Dialogue for Papua.
Corruption Issue
57. In recent years Komnas HAM has received complaints and handled cases of attacks directed to
staffs of independent state anti-corruption called Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
Accountability for cases of these attacks is minimal. In addition, in 2021 Komnas HAM will also
examine efforts to eliminate dozens of KPK staffs through discriminatory ways and violate
existing legal provisions through the misuse of a National Insight Test (TWK).
58. A KPK former senior investigator, Novel Baswedan, who is famous for handling major corruption
cases involving parliamentarians, high-ranking government officials, as well as police generals, in
April 2017 suffered serious injuries due to his face being thrown with hydrochloric acid by an
unknown person immediately after he went home in the morning to pray at the local mosque.
As a result of the attack, Novel had to be hospitalized abroad and his left eye became blind and
right eye have limited vision. After Komnas HAM investigation and widespread public pressure,
the National Police formed a joint investigative team involving non-police parties in January
2019 which then finished their duty in July 2019 without being able to identify the perpetrators.
In December 2019, two active police officers were arrested and later tried on charges of
assaulting Novel and convicted with sentences of one and a half and two years in prison
respectively in April 2020. They confessed to assault because they dislike Novel, who was
deemed to have betrayed the police institution. Komnas HAM considers that the attack on Novel
Baswedan was carried out in a planned and systematic manner involving several parties who
have not yet been revealed which include the intellectual actors.44
59. The case of the acid attack on Novel was not the first attack against him or other staffs in KPK as
this case related to other attacks towards the anti-corruption work carried out by the KPK at
that time. In January 2019, on the same day two KPK commissioners (2015-2019 period)
experienced threats and attacks at their respective residences through a fake pipe bomb
wrapped in plastic and hung on the fence and in other places the throwing of Molotov cocktails.
Until now the police could not identify the perpetrators of the threat or terror.
44
Komnas HAM, Novel Baswedan Case, Komnas HAM Recommend the Set Up of a Joint Investigation Team, 22
December 2018, can be accessed at https://www.komnasham.go.id/index.php/news/2018/12/22/716/kasusnovel-baswedan-komnas-ham-merekomendasikan-pembentukan-tim-gabungan.html and Komnas HAM,
Lenient Charges on Novel Baswedan Case Insult Presiden Jokowi’s Commitment, 24 June 2020, can be accessed
at https://www.komnasham.go.id/index.php/news/2020/6/24/1450/tuntutan-ringan-kasus-novel-baswedanhina-komitmen-presiden-jokowi.html.