Violation of human rights

Violation of human rights

From Forum Keadilan

Following the financial fiasco of the Golden Key Group, owned by tycoon Eddy Tansil, the Kanindotex Group, led by businessman Robby Tjahyadi took its turn in grabbing media headlines.

After these events I am increasingly concerned about human rights implementation in Indonesia. Although the 1945 Constitution enshrines human rights, there have been, at least, violations.

Samples of such violations are around us a great deal. One of them is the government's discrimination against the offsprings of former communist political prisoners (PKI). These children may have only known about PKI from history books and they should not have been branded as not having a clear "environment".

What about Robby Tjahyadi, a former luxury car smuggler, who was imprisoned in the past for inflicting huge losses on the state coffers. What is more sickening is the fact that after he was freed, he managed to appoint General (ret.) Sumitro as a commissary in his company. Eventually he went down due to the bad credit case.

Seeing the issue from this perspective I wonder whether our discrimination against the children of the former political detainees is justified. Those children seem to inherit the sin of their parents. Do we recognize hereditary sin?

We have to remain wary about extreme leftist and rightist elements but we should never treat the children and the grand children of former political prisoners the way we do now.

SIDIQ

Pontianak, West Kalimantan