RI must not shirk its global human rights duties: HRW – Fri, January 13 2023

Indonesia should have a more active voice in global human rights discourse, despite its principle of political non-alignment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) researchers said on Thursday, citing the country’s silence on the persecution of Muslims in eastern China, among other omissions, as counterproductive to human rights.

And while some human rights issues may have been used as political cudgels, activists insisted that this did not give Indonesia an excuse to keep out of such discussions.

The statement was made shortly after the release of HRW’s annual report, which pointed to Jakarta’s deciding vote against holding a discussion at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on alleged abuses against the Muslim Uighur minority in China’s Xinjiang region.