Human rights violations are rampant all over the world, whether you are in the most wealthy and cultivated of countries, or the poorest and most barren. Indonesia is no exception to this rule. Some examples of the specific violations to the basic assumed rights of human beings include: Impunity in the TNI (Tentara Nasional Indonesia), Political prisoners, freedom of speech and the presses.
The TNI:.
The armed forces of Indonesia, TNI (Tentara Nasional Indonesia) continue to violate basic world-recognized humanitarian law, and having almost complete immunity from the law themselves. Military operations in both the regions of Aceh and Papua have been recognized by their undisciplined troops, who never seem to face punishment for their savage actions, committing rapid abuses against otherwise innocent civilians including excessive executions, mysterious disappearances, unnecessary beatings, vengeful arrests and detentions, torture of those detained and very strict limits on movement freedoms.
Nevertheless, even to this date there has been no legal repentance for the violence instilled by those in dedicated support of Ex-President Soeharto, in their many failed attempts to postpone his 1998 fall from power, nor has there been punishment for the majority of abominations committed during his lengthy reign as Indonesian leader. Trials for the 1984 killing of civilians by Indonesian security forces at Tanjung Priok in Jakarta are still going on, even now, twenty years later, however, they are plagued by reports of interference by politicians and outside intimidation of witnesses. The trials of East Timor have been the most world-recognized demonstration of the sheer powerlessness of Indonesia's judiciary. Nevermind the pressure and interest by world forces, these trials taking place in Jakarta, failed miserably to give a feasible accounting for these violations committed in East Timor in 1999.
