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The Failure of the Governmental Non-Judicial Mechanism for Resolving Sexual Violence Cases as a Past Human Rights Violation in Indonesia

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Politics & Law

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This paper examines whether the Indonesian government's non-judicial settlement for addressing past gross human rights violence (PGHRV) may bring better conditions for the victims of sexual violence of past human rights violations.  Indonesia has struggled to address past human rights violence through formal justice mechanisms. There are about 12 unsolved cases, half of which include sexual violence during conflict. Learning from different experiences in various countries, the non-judicial mechanisms in settling gross human rights violations are not a new practice. However, this approach has a complexity in its implementation, particularly in handling sexual violence cases.  Finding the dead end of the formal judicial mechanism due to heavy political interest, this approach is still disputable, particularly in Indonesia, when the team for non-judicial mechanism settlement of past gross human rights violence (Tim PPHAM) was established in 2022. The non-judicial mechanism has not had a significant impact on victims of sexual violence.

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Dr Sri Wiyanti Eddyono - Faculty of Law UGM