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Human Rights: MoU between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement

Implementations

Human Rights – 2005

While the draft bill on Aceh was in process, including human rights provisions, such as the establishment of a Human Rights Court for Aceh, the bill was yet to be introduced to Indonesia’s legislative assembly. Indonesia also did not ratify the United Nations International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2005.

Human Rights – 2006

On 23 Feb 2006, Indonesia ratified the United Nations International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as provided in the MoU.¹

The draft bill was submitted to the parliament in January (Source: Indonesia submits draft law on Aceh to parliament, Agence France Presse, 27 January 2006).The bill was passed by the parliament on 11 June. The law includes provisions (Articles 227-231) such as the establishment of a Human Rights Court for Aceh, but the law stipulated that the Human Rights Court could only hear cases where violence occurred after the law was passed. In other words, the HRC cannot hear cases from the war, which was the intention of the court.²

“United Nations Treaty Collection,” United Nations, accessed March 28, 2013, http://treaties.un.org.
“Indonesian media reacts to passing of Aceh governance law,” BBC Monitoring, July 12, 2006.