KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. Four years after his election, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has yet to fulfill many of his promises on the issues of human rights and graft eradication. Jokowi, who was sworn in as president on Oct. 20, 2014, after defeating former general Prabowo Subianto, did not consider the issue of human right a priority, according to the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras). “His administration failed to accomplish most of its initial commitments about human rights,” Kontras commissioner Yati Andriyani told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.
In its evaluation report, Kontras noted that Jokowi had failed to carry out most of his own 17 priority human rights programs. Jokowi, it claimed, had yet to address the issues of extrajudicial killings, past human rights abuses and religious freedom. The remaining issues, including disability rights, had only been partially resolved, it added. Contacted separately, Indonesia Corruption Watch’s political corruption division coordinator, Donald Fariz, echoes that sentiment with regard Jokowi’s antigraft drive.