POLICY BRIEF FINDINGS The implementation of social protection policies is one of the issues highlighted by Komnas HAM RI. It is closely related to Targets 1.3 and 1.5 of the SDGs. The government has issued several policies to address social and economic impacts on the people due to the pandemic.1 However, Komnas HAM RI considered that some of the programs were not well-targeted, and were executed slowly, due to lack of data and overdue declaration of the health emergency status. Groups of people with disability, women and children 2 are the most affected in the population, since the support were not well-targeted to their needs. Therefore, food sufficiency and accessibility were disturbed. Those were the significant issues in reaching Target 2.1 of the SDGs. In relation to Goal 3 of the SDGs, Komnas HAM RI highlighted unequal distribution of medical personnel in Indonesia as one of the challenges during the pandemic. Many primary health facilities had no doctors.3 Inequality of health facilities and infrastructure in Indonesia has hindered the fulfillment of citizens’ rights to access them. Komnas HAM RI also highlighted inadequate fulfillment of rights to health for groups with disabilities besides poor data collection on number of disabled people and refusal of treatment due to the absence of capable medical personnel to handle them.4 1 In 2020 the government has allocated funds amounting to IDR 230.21 trillion, while in 2021 IDR 408.8 trillion for social protection programs, see: “Sri Mulyani Sebut Realisasi Anggaran PEN 2020 83,4 Persen, Ini Perinciannya”, Bisnis.com, published on 4 January 2021, https://ekonomi.bisnis.com/ read/20210104/9/1338615/sri-mulyani-sebut-realisasi-anggaran-pen-2020-834-persen-ini-perinciannya. 2 Description of Children in Indonesia, see: “COVID-19 dan Anak-Anak di Indonesia: Agenda Tindakan untuk Mengatasi Tantangan Sosial Ekonomi”, published on 11 May 2020, https://www.unicef.org/ indonesia/sites/unicef.org.indonesia/files/2020-05/COVID-19-dan-Anak-anak-di-Indonesia-2020_1. pdf. 3 See: “Pemenuhan SDM Kesehatan di Fasilitas Pelayanan Kesehatan Daerah Terpencil, Perbatasan dan Kepulauan dan Daerah Kurang Diminati”, Direktorat Jenderal Bina Pembangunan Daerah Kementerian Dalam Negeri, accessed on 14 February 2021, http://bppsdmk.kemkes.go.id/pusdiksdmk/wp-content/ uploads/2019/11/PAPARAN-DIR-SDMK.pdf. 4 “Tata Kelola Penanggulangan COVID-19 dalam Perspektif HAM”, Komnas HAM RI, published on 12 October 2020, https://www.komnasham.go.id/index.php/publikasi/2020/10/12/109/tata-kelolapenanggulangan-covid-19-dalam-perspektif-ham.html. 3