The year 2011 has been yet another period of abject failure by the government to protect human rights, according to the results of a survey released on Monday.
Bonar Tigor Naipospos, deputy chairman of the Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy, said the survey of leading rights activists, community and religious leaders and bureaucrats showed no improvement in the state’s efforts to protect rights.
“There has been no significant change or effort from the government to uphold human rights compared to the previous year,” he said.
“The survey used a similar approach as last year. The Setara Institute grouped the variables in eight categories and measured how these items were perceived by our 71 respondents.”
Bonar said the category respondents rated the lowest was the resolution of past human rights violations, which received a score of 1.4 on a scale from 0 to 7. Last year’s worst-performing category, the perception of religious freedom, improved from a score of 1.0 to 2.3, while elimination of discrimination dropped from 4.0 to 2.8.
“Even though the score for religious freedom improved, one item in that group that still received a low score was the handling of cases of violence against minority groups,” said Ismail Hasani, a researcher at the Setara Institute. Read more
Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Indonesia
What are Muslims living in “free” countries doing RE: human rights ?
Most Muslims in US, I have spoken to have never contributed to Amnesty International or Human Right Watch. In fact most have never heard of these organizations.
American Civil Librties Union (ACLU) has done significant efforts on behalf of Muslims after 9/11. Most Muslims I know, have never heard of them either.