December 3, 2000
His Excellency K.H. ABDURRAHMAN WAHID
President
Republic of Indonesia
Your Excellency:
Assalamualaikum .wr.wb In behalf of the participants
and organizers of the Asian and Latin American lawyers' Conference held
from November 27 until December 2, 2000 in Jakarta, Indonesia, we would
like to thank Your Excellency for having acceded to our request for an
audience and provide us with an opportunity to personally bring to your
attention our collective advocacy and the human rights situation, not only
in Indonesia, but throughout the world as well.
We also appreciate the efforts made by the
Government of the Republic of Indonesia in ensuring that human rights are
protected and promoted. The lawyers and organizers of the said Conference
believe that His Excellency's assurances, following their suggestions, of
(1) consulting with other government agencies regarding the ratification
of the United Nations' Draft Convention on the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced or involuntary Disappearances; (2) inviting the United
Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
perpetrated since the previous administrations up to the present; (3)
putting into consideration the possibility of expanding the mandate of the
National Commission on Human Rights are necessary steps in the proper
direction. Rest assured that we will be in constant communication and
collaboration with you in this regard.
Further, we would like to reiterate our
recommendations for the government of Indonesia to sign and ratify the
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Covenant on Economic ,
Social and Cultural Rights; to consider that human rights are universal
and indivisible; to ratify the Rome Statute on the Establishment of the
International Criminal Court; to strengthen the Indonesian judicial
system; and to extend protection to persons involved in human rights work
and advocacy.
We shall be furnishing you copies of the resolutions
that were approved during the Conference. We hope that this will be the
beginning of a lasting relationship in pursuit of social dignity and human
rights.
In this we remain.
Respectfully yours
Diego Morales
Argentina |
Munarman
Indonesia |
Mary Aileen D. Bacalso
Philippines |
Rene Sarmiento
Philippines |
Jane Thompson
Australia |
Rufriadi
Indonesia |
Edcel Lagman
Philippines |
Benjamin Rabucco III
Philippines |
Roberto Gareton
Chile |
Ori Rahman
Indonesia |
Daisy Erlinda Timbreza
Philippines |
K.L.J. Wishvajith de Silva
Sri Lanka |
Isabella DC Fereira
East Timor |
Aguwandi
Indonesia |
James de la Vega
Philippines |
Chandra Peiris
Sri Lanka |
Benjamin Cuellar
El Salvador |
Nur Kholis
Indonesia |
Jacqueline Mejia
Philippines |
Shanta Phatirana
Sri Lanka |
Cecilia Jimenez
Geneva, Switzerland |
Ikravany Hilman
Indonesia |
Neri Colmenares
Philippines |
KDC Kumarage
Sri Lanka |
Ghulam Nabi Hagroo
India |
Usman Hamid
Indonesia |
Roberto Gueverra
Philippines |
Abayseeva Rathnayake
Sri Lanka |
Sheik Ahmeid Parvez
India |
Farooq Niazi
Pakistan |
Francis Isaac
Philippines |
Nakhon Chomphuchat
Thailand |
