The Indonesian Commission on Human Rights said it would soon decide if human rights abuses that occurred under former president Soeharto's reign can be classified as "gross violations of human rights," local press said Saturday
A study and research team from the commission has examined six cases that took place under Soeharto's regime believed to be gross violations of human rights.
The six cases examined killings related to the socio-political upheaval during the mid 1960s, in which an undetermined number of people, allegedly members of the Indonesian Communist Party or its sympathizers, died or disappeared, reported national newspaper The Jakarta Post.
The cases also involved the prolonged imprisonment of political detainees on Buru Island, the series of mysterious shootings of criminals known in the 1980s, the armed conflicts in Aceh and Papua, the Paraku killings in East Kalimantan and the attacks on the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) headquarters in Jakarta.
"We hope that we have completed all of the reports by the end of December so we can discuss the cases in more detail in our plenary meeting," the commission's spokesman Yoseph Adi Prasetyo was quoted as saying.
Ahmad Baso, head of the study and research team for the Soeharto cases, said if the cases were determined as "gross violations", an ad-hoc team would be set up to further probe the violations.
The team would be made up of special investigators to follow-up the earlier examination process and to bring a formal dossier on the cases to the Attorney General's Office.
Source: Xinhua
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