RESEARCH PRELIMINARY RECOMMENDATIONS For the NCHR and the Government: • The NCHR needs to immediately communicate with the President as the Head of Steering Board in the National Coordination Team of the SDGs and also with the Ministry of NDP / Head of NDPA as the Executing Coordinator for the National Coordination Team of the SDGs on the strengthening of the NCHR’s position and roles.214 The government needs to embrace the communication in the spirit to strengthen human rights within the SDGs and optimizing the purpose, function, as well as duties and authority of the NCHR regulated under the Law 39/1999. • The government needs to include the NCHR as the supervisor to human rights in all goals of the SDGs in the new regulations and decisions that will replace the President Regulation 59/2017, the Minister of NDP / Head of NDPA Regulation 7/2018, and the Minister of NDP / Head of NDPA Decision 127/M.PPN/HK/11/2018. • The NCHR needs to immediately improve its internal capacity in relation to human rights and the SDGs, hence it could optimally perform its role regardless of whether or not the recommendation in the second point above is accepted. For the DIHR: The DIHR could support the strengthening of the NCHR’s internal capacity according to the third point above through various activities. For example, through strengthening the knowledge of the SDGs and human rights based on international standard for their internal parties. The planning of the activities for the strengthening needs to be made systematically to maximize the NCHR’s role in the SDGs and human rights regardless of whether or not the NCHR is placed as a supervisory institution. We completely agree with Stidsen’s comment that states “capacity building followed by cooperation on specific products is more fruitful than capacity-building alone”. 214 See: President Regulation 59/2017 (n. 1), Article 9. 30