Alliance presses for police accountability in deaths of FPI members 9th January 2021
ANTARA FOTO/Aprillio Akbar Jakarta (ANTARA) - Some 10 human rights watchdogs grouped in a civil society alliance highlighted the need for the Indonesian police to demonstrate accountability in the deaths of six slain members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI).
Police officers must meet the human rights standards in every action they take, though it is for law enforcement purposes, Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) Coordinator Fatia Maulidiyanti remarked.
Kontras, along with nine other human rights defenders in Indonesia, responded to the outcomes of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM s) probe into the recent fatal shooting of six FPI members in a press statement on Friday.
Fresh call for Indonesia to legalise medical marijuana Wednesday, 06 January 2021
A grieving mother has made yet another call for Indonesia to legalise the use of cannabis for medical purposes. The substance is banned in the country under the 2009 Narcotics Law, which is one of the world’s strictest drug regulations.
Dwi Pertiwi, the mother of Musa bin Hassan Pedersen, who lived with cerebral palsy until his death at the age of 16, joined two fellow mothers and a coalition of activist groups to file a petition challenging the law with the Constitutional Court on November 21.
The preliminary hearings had barely begun when Musa died on December 26 after his condition deteriorated as a result of breathing difficulties and hypoxia, according to the coalition.
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The Jakarta Police have named a woman and a man suspects in a leaked celebrity sex tape case for allegedly violating the 2008 Pornography Law amid calls from activists over privacy protection.
The woman, identified only as GA and the man, identified as MYD, were named suspects on Tuesday, Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Cmr. Yusri Yunus said.
“Based on the case exposé we conducted yesterday [Monday] we escalated her status from witness to suspect,” he said on Tuesday as reported by tribunnews.com.
GA was previously questioned twice as a witness in the case as the police suspected her to be the person in the video that went viral on social media last month.