29 November 2018 Banda Aceh, Indonesia “I feel relieved,” said the first testifier when asked how he felt at the end of the first day of the public hearing at the Governor’s compound in Banda Aceh. On 28-29 November 2018, the Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) held its first formal public hearing for victims […]
Southeast Asian cities have much in common: urban sprawl, the hustle and bustle of daily life, colorful street flair, impossibly crowded roads, and a history of tenuous human rights protections and unresolved impunity for mass human rights violations. Like a typical traffic jam in a Southeast Asian metropolis, accountability has had some jolts forward and […]
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Southeast Asian cities have much in common: urban sprawl, the hustle and bustle of daily life, colourful street flair, impossibly crowded roads, and history of tenuous human rights protections and unresolved impunity for mass human rights violations. Like a typical traffic jam in a Southeast Asian metropolis, accountability has had some jolts forward and many […]
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“Don’t Bury the Truth; Speak Even if not with Words!” The Rumoh Geudong monument was officially dedicated on 12 July 2018 with about a thousand people—including survivors and people from Pidie and Pidie Jaya Districts in attendance. From 1989–1998, when Aceh was declared a Military Operation Area, Rumoh Geudong was used as an Indonesian military […]
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First-Year Anniversary of the Centro Nacional Chega! Keeping the Promise for Truth, Justice, and Healing in Timor-Leste 17 July 2018 Today marks the first-year anniversary of the Chega! National Centre (CNC, Centro Nacional Chega!), Through Memory to Hope, an independent institution in Timor-Leste established to facilitate implementation of the recommendations of Timor-Leste’s Commission of Reception, […]
15 July 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of Per Memoriam Ad Spem [Through Memory towards Hope], the final report of the Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) of Indonesia and Timor-Leste. This initiative, the only bilateral commission in the world, was tasked with strengthening peace and friendship between the two countries by revealing the conclusive […]
Press Release A Disappearing Promise: Commission on Disappeared Persons 10 Years of Commission of Truth and Friendship of Indonesia and Timor Leste Jakarta, Indonesia and Dili, Timor-Leste 13 July 2018 15 July 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of Per Memoriam Ad Spem [Through Memory towards Hope], the final report of the Commission of Truth and […]
AJAR, Centro Nacional Chega! (CNC), and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) conducted an “International Educators’ Workshop on Strengthening the Capacity for Education on History and Violence Prevention” on 25-28 June 2018 in Dili, Timor-Leste. The workshop is a continuation of the workshop in Cambodia, January 2018 and is part of the joint […]