US Human Rights Report: Indonesia Highlighted Over Privacy Violations by Police, Data Protection, and Papua Conflict
WASHINGTON DC, KOMPAS.COM – United States Department of State (USA) released Reports on Human Rights Practices in various countries, including Indonesia.
As reported by 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (15/4/2022), a number of things were highlighted in the report. Following some of them.
POLICE VIOLATES PRIVACY
In its report, the US discusses arbitrary or unlawful interference laws regarding privacy, family, home, or correspondence that happened in Indonesia.
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The law requires a court order to search except in cases involving subversion, economic crime, and corruption, he wrote.
Security forces generally respect this requirement. Constitution also arrange for searches without a warrant when circumstances pressing and forcing.
(But) Police all over the country sometimes take action without proper authority or violate individual privacy, write that report.
A number of NGOs in Indonesia are said to be claiming security officers sometimes carry out surveillance without a warrant against individuals and where they live, even monitoring phone calls.
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COLLECTION OF INFORMATION IN PROTECTION
In addition, the report also highlights the Cares for Protect application that used by the government to track Covid-19 cases.
This application requires individuals who enter public spaces such as mall to check in using the app.
This app stores information about the vaccination status of an individual. NGOs express concern about what information is being collected and how data is stored and used by governments, the report said.
FROM THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
