Settlement of Human Rights Cases

Will we continue to be trapped in uncertainty and let it become a debt that will always be billed to the next government?

KOMPAS/WISNU WIDIANTORO

Sumarsih, whose son Wawan was one of the victims of the Semanggi 1 tragedy, joins the 500th Aksi Kamisan on July 27, 2017 at Merdeka Palace, Jakarta. Hundreds of human rights activists participated in the 500th Aksi Kamisan – the weekly Thursday rallies that have been held since 2007 –was themed "Sweet Empty Promises" and demanded the government to settle past human rights violations.

One of the major problems of the government and the people of Indonesia that appears to be making no progress toward resolution lies in gross violations of human rights that occurred in the past, especially during the New Order era.

The energy of this nation is eroded in the back and forth of pros and cons between the following options: never to forget and never to forgive, never to forget but to forgive, to forget but never to forgive (no court trials but condemned forever), to forget and forgive or simply to forget it altogether.