Indonesia: Shadows And Clouds: Human Rights In Indonesia - Shady Legacy, Uncertain Future - Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources

21.2.11

Indonesia: Shadows And Clouds: Human Rights In Indonesia - Shady Legacy, Uncertain Future - Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources: "Since the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the launch of Reformasi, Indonesia has gradually evolved into a stable democracy, with regular, relatively free and fair elections, a surge of international human rights instruments ratification, and with wider protection and stronger guarantees for human rights than at any time in the past, a “flourishing democracy and a bastion of tolerance”, in the words of the usually tough-talking Economist1. Though not unfounded, the picture is not quite as rosy for human rights as it seems. Two main reasons emerge for this increasingly disturbing trend: unsettled scores inherited from the past, and new emerging patterns of intolerance; the two are clearly linked, as impunity for past violations set its imprint for current and future violations."