Int'l workshop on displaced persons

Int'l workshop on displaced persons

PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: A two-day workshop on guiding principles for the internal migration of refugees has taken place in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration.

Central Kalimantan Governor Nahson Taway told the workshop, which ended on Friday, that the handling of refugees should observe the principles of national and international laws concerning humanitarian affairs.

Organized by the Directorate General of Human Rights Protection at the Ministry of Justice, the discussion was attended by 14 participants from Jakarta, 17 provincial delegates and three representatives of the ministry's regional office.

The governor added that in was in this spirit that his administration had sought to achieve reconciliation in resolving communal conflicts, and had issued a local regulation to mitigate their impact on local communities. --Antara