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Indonesia
Country Resolution on the Murder of Munir
 
 
  
Resolution
 
WHEREAS taking into account that enforced or involuntary disappearances as well as extrajudicial killings are recognized as crimes against humanity in international human rights law;
 
WHEREAS referring to the U.N. Declaration on the right of any organization, group or person to defend and to promote international human rights principles, adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 1998;
 
WHEREAS enforced disappearances were practiced in Indonesia in 1997-98 and no thorough investigations have been carried out in order to establish the whereabouts of the disappeared persons, in spite of growing universal recognition of the right not to be disappeared as well as the right for the bereaved to know the truth;
 
WHEREAS highly concerned at the fact that in the case of the assassination of Mr. Munir, founder  of the Commission for the Disappeared Victims of Violence  (KontraS) , committed in September  2004, no substantial progress has been made to investigate this crime and to bring those responsible to justice although the Fact Finding Team (TPF) in charge of investigating this assassination, established the involvement of high-ranking officers of the State Intelligence Body (BIN).
 
Therefore we, the participants of the Third Congress of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearance (AFAD) guided by the theme - "Coming Together: Forging a Global Respect for the Right not to Be Disappeared" - held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from December 16 to 18, 2006, RESOLVE hereby to strongly urge the Indonesian government to undertake the following measures:
 
To seriously conduct the investigation into the case of Munir until the cause and masterminds are identified, brought to court and punished and, to do so, to give full support to the police investigators as well as to give order to the State Intelligence Body (BIN) to fully cooperate with the investigators.
 
To make public the results of the work of the Fact Finding Team (TPF) as stipulated in the presidential Decree that set up the Team.
 
To invite the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, Mr. Phillip Alston, for an official visit to the country.
 
Concerning the cases of enforced disappearances in 1997-98, to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation and effect prosecution through the Human Rights Court as the inquiry carried out by the National Commission on Human Rights (KOMNAS HAM) has characterized them as a crime against Humanity and as a continuing offence.
 
In relation to the cases mentioned above, to invite equally the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) for an official visit to the country.
 
  
 
SIGNED BY THE DELEGATES Third AFAD Congress on December 19, 2006 in Kathmandu, Nepal

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