The Working Group on the Advocacy against Torture and the World Organisation Against Torture have released a joint report on torture and ill-treatment in Indonesia that highlights five main areas of concern: the reluctance of the government to adopt torture provisions, violence against women, a lack of judicial safeguards for children, the widespread use of torture, the lack of protection for torture victims.

(Jakarta-Geneva, 21 May, 2008) The Working Group on the Advocacy against Torture (WGAT) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) presented their joint report on torture and ill-treatment in Indonesia during a constructive and fruitful dialogue with the UN Committee against Torture (CAT or the Committee) during its 40th session in connection to its review of Indonesia’s Second Periodic Report in Geneva, Switzerland, from 5 to 7 May 2008.

The WGAT and OMCT wish to put forward five prominent issues that have been highlighted in their joint report and echoed by the Committee in its Concluding Observations released on 16 May: First, the WGAT and OMCT are deeply concerned about the reluctance shown by the Government to immediately incorporate provisions of torture in its penal legislation, notably in the Penal Code (KUHP); second, the WGAT and OMCT are deeply concerned about the high incidence of violence against women; third, the WGAT and OMCT are seriously concerned about the lack of particular judicial safeguards for children; fourth, the WGAT and OMCT are seriously concerned about the widespread of torture and ill-treatments and insufficient safeguards for detainees; and fifth, the WGAT and OMCT are seriously concerned about the protection as well as compensation and rehabilitation of torture victims.
 
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