Human Rights Planning Forum Sets Eight National Priorities
Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Ministry of Human Rights (KemenHAM) has set eight national priority issues through the 2026 Human Rights Development Planning Forum (Musrenbang HAM), to serve as the basis for formulating development policies grounded in a human rights perspective.
The eight issues are the right to an adequate standard of living; a good and healthy environment; education; equal access to basic services; development; protection from climate and disaster risks; food; and freedom of opinion and expression.
Deputy Minister of Human Rights Mugiyanto said in a statement in Jakarta on Friday that the forum’s outcomes needed to be incorporated into the planning and budgeting documents of ministries, agencies and regional governments so they would not remain merely policy documents.
“These two days have not been in vain. These results are not just documents to be put away in a cupboard,” Mugiyanto said as he closed the 2026 forum in Jakarta on Thursday (22 October).
The meeting’s outcome document will be submitted to the Minister of National Development Planning and head of Bappenas, and to the Minister of Home Affairs, for follow-up within their respective authorities. The results will also be reported to President Prabowo Subianto.
“The results of what we have discussed at this forum will also be officially reported to the President. That means the voices you have raised in this room will reach the desk of the country’s highest decision-maker,” he said.
Mugiyanto stressed the importance of coordination across institutions, as fulfilling human rights requires the involvement of a range of stakeholders. He urged ministries, agencies and regional governments to work together to turn the priorities into programmes that can be implemented.
“Human rights are not the responsibility of one ministry. Respecting, protecting, fulfilling, upholding and advancing human rights is our shared task. The planning forum may end today, but our work is only just beginning,” he said.
The 2026 Human Rights Development Planning Forum was held over two days, with ministries and agencies, regional governments and civil society organisations taking part. The eight priority issues were selected in a plenary session attended by 62 participants.
Each participant selected up to eight issues from a list of proposed concerns, taking into account working group assessments as well as data and findings from the Ministry of Human Rights.
Mugiyanto also emphasised the importance of civil society input in policymaking to ensure development planning reflects people’s needs on the ground.
He said the ministry would continue to provide opportunities for coordination and communication with civil society groups to support follow-up on the forum’s outcomes.
He expressed hope that all stakeholders would turn the priorities into concrete action to strengthen the fulfilment of human rights in national development.