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Police committed most human rights violations in 2015: Kontras

Jakarta Post - December 10, 2015

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Jakarta – The National Police (Polri) committed the highest number of human rights violations this year, according to a recent finding by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras).

During 2015, there were at least 238 human rights related violations throughout the country and 85 of them were committed by Polri. Violations included the forced dissolution of actions or events, apprehension and persecution and the prohibition of reportage, explained Kontras coordinator Haris Azhar.

"Polri considers human rights to be merely an obligatory trend. The institution admits to being democratic, but does not put this ideology into practice", Haris emphasized.

"The important thing is that it admits to being a democratic institution. If it hadn't admitted this, it could be thought of as New Order," said Haris on Thursday as quoted by tempo.co.

The political and economic interests of Polri officials are larger than the awareness of the need to uphold human rights. To Polri, human rights issues are not born from a consciousness to improve an institution, he said. (kes)

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/12/10/police-committed-most-human-rights-violations-2015-kontras.html.