'Reconciliation knows no limit': Minister

'Reconciliation knows no limit': Minister

JAKARTA: All human rights cases that cannot be settled in
court should be presented to the reconciliation commission
regardless of what year the abuses took place, a minister says.

In order to avoid confusion, however, Minister of Justice and
Human Rights Yusril Ihza Mahendra said on Thursday that cases
prior to Aug. 17, 1945 should not be presented to the commission.

The commission has yet to be set up.

He made the statement at a hearing with the House of
Representative's special commission in charge of deliberating the
bill on the truth and reconciliation commission (KKR).

He said reconciliation would help the nation have a better
future.

Yusril said that human rights abuses in the country would be
brought to court as long as there was enough evidence and
witnesses. "And of course, if it is clear who the suspect is,"
Yusril said.

But if the evidence and the witnesses were not clear, the
human rights abuses would be settled through the commission, he
said. - JP