‘Bleak future’: Rights teams paint grim image after nice democratic setback – Politics

Marking the annual Worldwide Human Rights Day, rights teams on Friday painted a disturbingly bleak image of the nation’s state of human rights with a controversial intolerant laws being handed, lukewarm dealing with of previous rights violations and persisting violence and impunity amongst safety forces.

As soon as described as an essential bellwether for the state of democracy in Southeast Asia, indicators of regression below President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration have taken better form. A brand new consensus has emerged that Indonesia is no longer solely going through democratic stagnation however is within the midst of regression.

With the reminiscence of an period of autocratic rule below Soeharto nonetheless lingering on, within the minds of activists controversial legal guidelines and faltering dedication to defend basic freedoms could overturn the nation’s hard-won progress in defending human rights.