London (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian delegation to a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday briefed the session on Indonesia`s efforts to improve respect and protection of human rights at home.
"Delegates from all other countries at the meeting appreciated the progress achieved by Indonesia in promoting respect for and protection of human rights," a staffer at the office of the Indonesian Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Yasmi Adriansyah, said.
The Indonesian delegation was led by Director General for Multilateral Cooperation at the Foreign Ministry, Reslan Izhar Djenie, and further consisted of officials from the ministries of law and human rights, social affairs, manpower and transmigration, women`s empowerment and the Indonesian Permanent Representative`s office in Geneva.
Yasmi said Indonesia was among 16 countries attending the UN Human Rights Council`s first UPR meeting which would run until April 18.
The other countries are Bahrain, Ecuador, Tunisia, Morocco, Finland, Britain, India, Brazil, the Philippines, Algeria, Poland, the Netherlands, South Africa, the Czech Republic and Argentine.
The second UPR meeting would be held in May and December, she said, adding that Indonesia would be a member of a troika that would review reports from India and Japan.
The UPR mechanism was agreed on by UN member nations as an effort to intensify protection of human rights in each member country through dialog and cooperation based on the Council`s resolution on Institutional Building.
The mechanism, she said, would eventually result in the issuance of recommendations and inputs from all UN member countries and observers an efforts to intensify protection of human rights in UN member countries, including Indonesia.
At Wednesday`s UPR meeting, the Indonesian delegation provided explanations and information on the human rights situation in Indonesia to complement a report the government had submitted to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights last February.
The Indonesian delegation also elaborated on Indonesia`s first and second national action plans on human rights as a follow up of the Vienna Declaration and the Action Program adopted in 1993.
It reported the Indonesian government was completing a process to revise the country`s Penal Code in consultation also with some non-governmental organizations.
The Indonesian delegation also told the session Indonesia would ratify the Optional Protocol I of the International Convention against Torture by 2009, withdraw some of the reservations it had once put forward on some articles in the International Convention on Children`s Rights and try to adjust its national laws with those convention articles.
About the Law on Public Information which was passed by the House of Representatives (DPR) on April 4, the delegation said based on the law, the state and all public institutions were obliged to make their financial reports public.
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"Delegates from all other countries at the meeting appreciated the progress achieved by Indonesia in promoting respect for and protection of human rights," a staffer at the office of the Indonesian Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Yasmi Adriansyah, said.
The Indonesian delegation was led by Director General for Multilateral Cooperation at the Foreign Ministry, Reslan Izhar Djenie, and further consisted of officials from the ministries of law and human rights, social affairs, manpower and transmigration, women`s empowerment and the Indonesian Permanent Representative`s office in Geneva.
Yasmi said Indonesia was among 16 countries attending the UN Human Rights Council`s first UPR meeting which would run until April 18.
The other countries are Bahrain, Ecuador, Tunisia, Morocco, Finland, Britain, India, Brazil, the Philippines, Algeria, Poland, the Netherlands, South Africa, the Czech Republic and Argentine.
The second UPR meeting would be held in May and December, she said, adding that Indonesia would be a member of a troika that would review reports from India and Japan.
The UPR mechanism was agreed on by UN member nations as an effort to intensify protection of human rights in each member country through dialog and cooperation based on the Council`s resolution on Institutional Building.
The mechanism, she said, would eventually result in the issuance of recommendations and inputs from all UN member countries and observers an efforts to intensify protection of human rights in UN member countries, including Indonesia.
At Wednesday`s UPR meeting, the Indonesian delegation provided explanations and information on the human rights situation in Indonesia to complement a report the government had submitted to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights last February.
The Indonesian delegation also elaborated on Indonesia`s first and second national action plans on human rights as a follow up of the Vienna Declaration and the Action Program adopted in 1993.
It reported the Indonesian government was completing a process to revise the country`s Penal Code in consultation also with some non-governmental organizations.
The Indonesian delegation also told the session Indonesia would ratify the Optional Protocol I of the International Convention against Torture by 2009, withdraw some of the reservations it had once put forward on some articles in the International Convention on Children`s Rights and try to adjust its national laws with those convention articles.
About the Law on Public Information which was passed by the House of Representatives (DPR) on April 4, the delegation said based on the law, the state and all public institutions were obliged to make their financial reports public.
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