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Shifting from International to “Indonesian” Justice Measures: Two Decades of Addressing Past Human Rights Violations

Setiawan, K ; McGregor, K (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)

What do Indonesia’s democratisation efforts look like when examined from the lens of human rights? Using the 1965 violence as a case study this article analyses human rights and justice reform after the end of the Suharto regime in 1998. We argue that despite the initial push to adopt international human rights principles and transitional justice mechanisms in Indonesian law, human rights reforms have stagnated. Explanations for this include the weakness of the human rights movement preceding 1998 and efforts by parties implicated in past violence to block justice initiatives.