RESEARCH
background of that event, namely Goals 10 and 16.136
Domestic partners are equally important in supporting the NCHR to implement the SDGs and
human rights activities. For example, in June 2015, the SDGs concept has been introduced
by the NCHR in the workshop and training activities concerning the human rights cities
in connection with the Wonosobo Regency development.137 This activity construed as the
implementation of partnership embodied in the memorandum of understanding between
the NCHR and the government of Wonosobo Regency as well as the Institute for Policy
Research and Advocacy (hereinafter: ELSAM) and International NGO Forum on Indonesian
Development (hereinafter: INFID), which priorly has been signed by the parties in May
2015.138 These workshops and training were also supported by the Ministry of Law and
Human Rights as well as the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.139 In November of the same
year, the NCHR along with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights as well as ELSAM and
INFID issued a press release concerning human rights cities and connect it with the SDGs.140
The human rights friendly city theme is very relevant to Goal 11 of the SDGs.141 In November
2018, the NCHR in collaboration with among others, the central, Central Java province,
and Wonosobo regency government as well as INFID, have succeeded in encouraging the
manifestation of the Wonosobo Declaration which supports the SDGs’ success in general,
whereas the SDGs Team in the NCHR related this activity with Goals 5, 10, 11, and 16.142
Collaboration with the central government (Executive Office of the President of the
Republic of Indonesia) and local government (Government of Jember Regency) as well as
INFID related to the SDGs has been continued, for instance with the implementation of the
Human Rights Festival 2019.143
136
Ibid., “Empowering the Most Marginalized and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality: Realizing the
SDGs through Human Rights”.
137
Yuli Asmini, “Lokalatih Human Rights Cities di Wonosobo” [Workshop on Human Rights Cities in
Wonosobo] SUAR, No. 1 of 2015, 40.
138
Ibid.
139
“Pemantauan Workshop Pengarusutamaan HAM Dalam Pengembangan Wonosobo Sebagai Kabupaten
Ramah HAM” [Monitoring to the Workshop to Prioritize Human Rights in the Development of
Wonosobo as a Human Rights-Friendly Regency], Direktorat Jenderal Hak Asasi Manusia Kementerian
Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia, published on 7 June 2015, http://ham.go.id/pemantauan-workshoppengarusutamaan-ham-dalam-pengembangan-wonosobo-sebagai-kabupaten-ramah-ham/.
140
(1) Komnas HAM, INFID, ELSAM, and Kemenkumham, “Siaran Pers Komnas HAM RI, INFID,
ELSAM dan Kemenkumham RI Dorong Kota Ramah HAM di Indonesia” [Press Release from the
NCHR, INFID, ELSAM, and the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia
is Encouraging Human Rights-Friendly Cities in Indonesia]; and (2) Eva Nila Sari, “Komnas HAM
RI, INFID, ELSAM and Kemenkumham RI Dorong Kota Ramah HAM di Indonesia” [NCHR, INFID,
ELSAM, and the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia Encourage Human
Rights-Friendly Cities in Indonesia], Komnas HAM, published on 13 November 2015, https://www.
komnasham.go.id/index.php/news/2015/11/13/229/komnas-ham-ri-infid-elsam-andkemenkumham-ridorong-kota-ramah-ham-di-indonesia.html.
141
See: footnotes number 73-75.
142
(1) “Deklarasi Wonosobo dalam Festival HAM Indonesia 2018” [Wonosobo Declaration in the Human
Rights Festival of Indonesia in 2018], Komnas HAM, published on 15 November 2018, komnasham.
go.id/index.php/news/2018/11/15/682/deklarasi-wonosobo-dalam-festival-ham-indonesia-2018.html;
(2) “NCHR 2018 Annual Report” (n. 94), 90-91; and (3) “NCHR List of SDG’s Activities” (n. 99).
143
(1) “Report and Review of the NCHR’s SDGs Activities 2019” (n. 99), 8; and (2) “NCHR 2019 Annual
Report” (n. 88), 32-34 and 110.
17