Prospects for Settling Past Human Rights Violations During Jokowi's Final Year

All Indonesian people can continue to learn from what happened in the past, why gross human rights violations happened, and how this nation can prevent them from recurring in the future.

“I and fellow victims of the Priok [incident] are feeling sad, Brother. On 11 January, we suffered another persecution, [with us] not being recognized by the government. [The Tanjung Priok incident was not among] the 12 cases of gross human rights violations," said Wanma Yetty.

Yetty is the daughter of Bachtiar Johan, a trader who died from a gunshot would during the Tanjung Priok incident on 12 Sept. 1984. Bachtiar's body was identified by a forensic team during an exhumation16 years later, following a report from the National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) that concluded that the Tanjung Priok incident was a gross human rights violation.