“The Aceh TRC has a mandate for exhumation, but in terms of budget and resources, they are even struggling to get other stuff done. So the mass graves are sort of put to the side,” Galuh Wandita, director of AJAR and commissioner of Aceh TRC, told participants during GIJTR’s site-visit day at AJAR’s Learning Centre […] Read more

Despite Indonesia’s repeated commitments to address human rights violations committed in 1965 – such as extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances and torture – more than five decades later millions of victims and their families are still waiting for truth, justice and reparation. On the 51st anniversary of these violations, Amnesty International, Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), […] Read more

Written by AJAR’s Director, Galuh Wandita. Last week an extraordinary thing took place in Jakarta. For the first time, survivors of the 1965 atrocities were in the same room with some of Indonesia’s highest-ranking generals and officials, talking about what happened. There were different views: denials of the killings, a refusal to apologize, and pleas […] Read more

Salah satu mandat CAVR adalah mencari kebenaran fakta dari pelanggaran hak-hak asasi manusia di Timor Leste, yang ada hubungannya dengan konflik politik yang terjadi antara 25 April 1974 sampai 25 Oktober 1999. Salah satu proses yang dijalankan oleh CAVR adalah mewawancara dan merekam kesaksian lebih dari 800 orang tentang apa yang mereka alami selama kurun […] Read more

Part of CAVR’s mandate was to seek the truth regarding human rights violations in Timor Leste within the context of the political conflicts between 25 April 1974 and 25 October 1999. As part of this process, CAVR interviewed and recorded the testimonies of more than 8000 people about theis experiences during that time. This film […] Read more