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Recognition justice is a theory of social justice that emphasizes the recognition of human dignity and of difference between subaltern groups and the dominant society. [1] [2] Social philosophers Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser point to a 21st-century shift in theories of justice away from distributive justice (which emphasises the elimination of economic inequalities) toward recognition justice ...
Operating over three years, the commission gave its final report on July 15, 2008, and presented it to the Presidents of Indonesia and East Timor, concluding that "gross human rights violations in the form of crimes against humanity did occur in East Timor in 1999" and that "pro-autonomy militia groups, TNI, the Indonesian civil government, and ...
Title changed to Minister of Justice and Human Rights [2] 25 Hamid Awaluddin: United Indonesia I: 21 October 2004 – 7 May 2007: Title changed to Minister of Law and Human Rights [2] 26 Andi Mattalata 7 May 2007 – 20 October 2009 [2] 27 Patrialis Akbar: United Indonesia II: 22 October 2009 – 19 October 2011 [2] 28 Amir Syamsuddin
Advocates for human rights have noted actions by the government of Indonesia as concerning. Although the country has had Komnas HAM, which enjoys a degree of independence from government and holds United Nations accreditation, the commission itself has little effect as it was not given any legal teeth against discriminatory practices committed by the government.
Meanwhile, Indonesians who have entered into same-sex marriages abroad are not allowed to register their marriage in Indonesia. [13] Additionally, article 34(1) of the Law No. 23 of 2006 on Civil Administration obliges all marriages to be reported to the local authorities within 60 days, and states that "'marriage' can only be performed between ...
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands , including Sumatra , Java , Sulawesi , and parts of Borneo and New Guinea .
Effective 24 September 1963, the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur closed down upon the Malayan government's orders, following a failure to reach a satisfactory settlement of the Philippines' claim to eastern North Borneo, and the deferment of recognition of the successor state, Malaysia. Diplomatic and consular relations between the two ...
Law of Indonesia is based on a civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and Dutch law.Before European presence and colonization began in the sixteenth century, indigenous kingdoms ruled the archipelago independently with their own custom laws, known as adat (unwritten, traditional rules still observed in the Indonesian society). [1]