Minister Pigai Claims Indonesia's Human Rights Education Could Break World Record

Minister of Human Rights Natalius Pigai stated that his ministry has the opportunity to surpass the world record for organising human rights education with the largest number of participants. He said he had received information from the Guinness Book of Records. “We will be one of the nominees as the ministry that conducts the highest volume of human rights education in the world,” he said while attending a working meeting with Commission XIII of the House of Representatives (DPR) at the Parliament complex in Jakarta on Wednesday, 10 June 2026. Pigai explained that the world record for the largest human rights education event is still held by Uruguay. The South American nation set the world record for human rights training in 2018. Pigai noted that the human rights education or training held by Uruguay at that time involved 3,000 participants from the local police force. He said the number of participants in his ministry’s human rights education programme has already surpassed that figure. “We have now conducted training for 6,000 people in North Sumatra,” he stated. The former commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is optimistic that this achievement can position Indonesia as the country with the largest human rights education programme in the world. He noted that his statements rarely miss the mark when providing information. For instance, Pigai pointed to his previous statement that Indonesia would become President of the United Nations Human Rights Council. According to him, this materialised shortly thereafter. “Hopefully, this world record will also be realised. However, another country might also excel. God willing, it can happen,” said Pigai.