Subject: AFP: Commission on human rights installs
new board members
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 14:33:02 GMT
From: hops <hops@gn.apc.org>Received from Joyo
Indonesian commission on human rights installs new board members
JAKARTA, Dec 8 (AFP) - The Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights has installed
new board members, appointing former deputy chairman Marzuki Darusman the new chairman,
members said Tuesday.
In the new line-up, formalized Monday, Darusman replaced former religious affairs
minister Munawir Sadzali.
Daruman is currently the chairman of ruling Golkar party faction at country's highest
legislative, the People's Consultative Assembly.
Named as new deputy chairmen were Joko Sugianto and Bambang Suharto, the latter also a
prominent member of Golkar who was formerly a board member of Komnas Ham.
Dropped from the board were current Justice Minister Muladi (eds: one name) and
Nurcholis Madjid, one of the country's noted Moslem intellectuals.
Among the newcomers were businessman H.S. Dillon, Said Aqil Siraj, the secretary
general of Indonesia's largest Moslem organization Nahdlatul Ulama, and Ali Afi, head of
the Indonesian Council of Moslem Scholars (MUI) -- the country's highest Islamic
authority.
The commission known as Komnas Ham was installed by former president Suharto in 1993
with the task of promoting the observance and protection of human rights.
The commission, though directly responsible to the president, has been praised by
observers for its critical assessments of cases ranging from land disputes to human rights
violations by the military, despite initial skepticism by human rights activists here.
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