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Titel

Indonesia

Ist Teil von

• World Report 2015, 2015, p.288-294

Ort / Verlag

Bristol, UK: Policy Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

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• Joko Widodo, popularly known as "Jokowi," took office on October 20, 2014, after winning a tightly contested presidential election on July 9. The election was a watershed; Widodo is the first Indonesian president who has neither a military background nor an elite family pedigree. Widodo's campaign focused primarily on economic issues, but he made commitments on several of the pressing human rights issues he inherited, including pledges to investigate the enforced disappearance of 13 pro-democracy activists in 1998 in the dying days of the Suharto dictatorship and to lift restrictions on foreign journalists from traveling to and reporting from Papua and West Papua provinces. Those commitments are vague, however, and had yet to be backed by specific directives or policy measures at time of writing. The human rights record of Jokowi's predecessor, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in office for 10 years, was characterized more by failures and missed opportunities than by successes. Yudhoyono's government made little progress in ending impunity for past serious human rights abuses by security forces; failed to protect the rights of Indonesia's religious minorities from increasing harassment, intimidation, and violence by Islamist militants; allowed the enforcement of local Islamic bylaws that violate rights of women, LGBT people, and religious minorities; and failed to address continuing abuses in Papua.