Source: Satunet web site, Jakarta, in Indonesian 16 Jan 02
Indonesia: Rights body objects appointment of ad hoc judge for Timor trial
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Jan 16, 2002
Text of report by Indonesian Satunet news web site on 16 January
Satunet.com: The Megawati government needs to reconsider the appointment
of
Rudi M. Rizki as one of the ad hoc human rights judges.
According to the chairman of the Kontras [Commission for Missing Persons
and Victims of Violence] BP Presidium, Ori Rahman, Rudi is one of Wiranto's
legal advisers in the case of serious violations of human rights in East
Timor. According to him it opens up the possibility of a conflict of
interest in the legal process.
According to him, the appointment of Rudi further showed that the
nomination process was not above board, and did not involve the community.
The government should be more focussed and pay more serious attention
to
the resolution of human rights violations, said Ori.
The government was also urged to have higher aspirations towards the
problem of human rights, be capable of calling on the community's sense
of
justice and establish a better legal format, such as a guarantee of public
control in the process of justice. Rudi himself came from academic circles,
namely from the Padjajaran University in Bandung.