Indonesia has trouble finding a human-rights panel
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Indonesian Pres Suharto on Jun 7, 1993 founded the National Commission on Human Rights. Ali Said, a one-time chief justice of the Supreme Court, has been named chairman. However, by September Said had been unable to recruit the remaining 25 commission members. Many prominent human-rights advocates have refused to serve. The reason seems to be the belief that the commission will have no real power and is merely a cosmetic attempt by the Indonesian government to improve its abysmal human rights record. This attitude may unfairly prevent the commission from proving that it can act meaningfully.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
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Indonesia's harsh measures on Chinese are bearing fruit
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Ethnic Chinese living in Indonesia must decide whether they are Indonesians of Chinese stock or Chinese who chance to dwell in Indonesia. Ethnic Chinese now number 5 million, or 3% of the population, but their disproportionate wealth incurs the hostility of other Indonesians, especially toward ethnic Chinese who invest in China. After 1955 the ethnic Chinese had to choose between Chinese and Indonesian nationality. Indonesia's highly diverse population to some extent has helped the Chinese to assimilate. However, the failed communist coup of 1965 led to much anti-Chinese feeling.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
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A UNI report of East Timor: 1991 shooting was 'a planned military operation.'(Column)
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United Nations special rapporteur Bacre Waly Ndiaye recently issued a scathing report after his investigation of the Indonesian military's 1991 killings of several hundred civilians. Estimating the total deaths at 150 to 270, he said officials were definitely complicit and that the massacre was planned. Saying that the conditions creating that incident still prevail in East Timor, he called for a reduction in military presence there and the creation of a special investigatory commission.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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