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The Past Is Another Country: Designing Amnesty Law For Past Human Rights Violators, Harison Citrawan
The Past Is Another Country: Designing Amnesty Law For Past Human Rights Violators, Harison Citrawan
Indonesia Law Review
In the context past gross human rights violation cases in Indonesia, the President’s constitutional authority to propose amnesty law might by and large implicate legal and ethical aspects. Holistically, any forgiveness and oblivion against any human rights violators should consider the development and the dynamic of international criminal law, which arguably have been directed to an absolute individual criminal responsibility. Against this issue, this paper finds that based on legal and ethical arguments, accompanied with various technical preconditions outlined in the Belfast Guideline on Amnesty and Accountability, an amnesty towards past gross human rights violators must be taken paradigmatically. Arguably, …
Abused And Alone: Legal Redress For Migrant Domestic Workers In Malaysia, Jennifer Whelan, Rohaida Nordin, Ma Kalthum Ishak, Nursyuhada Matwi
Abused And Alone: Legal Redress For Migrant Domestic Workers In Malaysia, Jennifer Whelan, Rohaida Nordin, Ma Kalthum Ishak, Nursyuhada Matwi
Indonesia Law Review
Malaysia’s rapid economic development has relied on Malaysian workers as well as on migrant workers, especially from ASEAN countries and South Asia. The sustained high economic growth rates in Malaysia over approximately three decades caused the increase in migrant workers, who were to meet the rising demand in certain sectors of the Malaysian labour market. The objective of the article is to identify potential opportunities for policy and legislative reform in relation to Malaysia’s implementation of its obligations as a Migrant Domestic Worker (MDW) receiving country specifically in relation to the barriers to MDW bringing claims where their rights have …
Indonesia & Thailand: “Maltreatment”/ “Forced Labor”/ “Tip” In Fisheries In Indonesia/Thailand, Pisawat Sukonthapan
Indonesia & Thailand: “Maltreatment”/ “Forced Labor”/ “Tip” In Fisheries In Indonesia/Thailand, Pisawat Sukonthapan
Indonesia Law Review
This article focuses on “trafficking in persons” (TIP) in fisheries in Indonesia and Thailand. This The article refers to key international instruments on TIP and continues by discussing recent cases of TIP in fisheries in Indonesia that were reported in the first half of year 2015. It also explores national domestic legislation of Indonesia and Thailand in relation of measures to combat trafficking in the region. Bilateral and multilateral treaties such as the Treaty between the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia Relating to Extradition and the ASEAN Treaty on Mutual Legal …
Peasants’ Land Rights Claims Over Plantation Companies’ Sites In Central Java, Indonesia (1998-2014), Siti Rakhma Mary Herwati, Yanuar Sumarlan
Peasants’ Land Rights Claims Over Plantation Companies’ Sites In Central Java, Indonesia (1998-2014), Siti Rakhma Mary Herwati, Yanuar Sumarlan
Indonesia Law Review
This article reveals the opening of political and legal opportunities for the landless peasants of Central Java at the end of the 1990s to reclaim their lands that were confiscated during the end of the 1950s through a nationalization program to take over Dutch-controlled lands. Taking two sites of plantations that have been targeted as the peasantries’ land reclaiming campaign, this article shows the processes of the reclaiming, the responses of both plantation companies and state, and the respect of the state over rights to access to lands or property rights of the peasants as citizens. Using some legal and …