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Indonesia

Regional group:

Asia – Pacific Group (APG)

Council member:

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

Council Bureau membership:	Vice-president (2009-2010)
Coordinator of regional group:	–
Voluntary financial contribution to OHCHR (2024) :

Other HRC positions:	Member of Consultative Group (2011-2012) Member of Working Group on Situations (2020, 2022)
OHCHR presence:	– No field presence
NHRI accreditation status:	A

National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Unknown

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

The negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights; Right to work; Equal participation in political and public affairs; Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights; Access to medicines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; High-level panel discussion to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action; Regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asia-Pacific Region; Strengthening documentation within the Human Rights Council.

Voting record

Since it first became a member of the Council in 2006, Indonesia has (in the absence of consensus) voted in favour of nearly all item 4 resolutions (situations that require the Council's attention) on the situation in the Syrian Arab republic but has tended to abstain or vote against all other item 4 resolutions. For item 7 resolutions (human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories), Indonesia has mostly voted in favour, except in 2009 when it voted against two item 7 texts. Indonesia has mostly abstained during voting on all item 10 (capacity-building) resolutions, except for a 2009 resolution on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (voted in favour). For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Indonesia has generally joined consensus. Where there has been a vote, it has usually voted in favour. Notwithstanding, during voting on the texts on the question of the death penalty Indonesia twice voted against (2014 and 2015) and twice abstained (2017 and 2021). It also voted against a 2016 text on sexual orientation and abstained during the voting on two resolutions on discrimination based on religion (2007 and 2009) and one on transitional justice (2016). For thematic resolutions dealing with economic, social, and cultural rights, Indonesia has either joined consensus on, or has voted in favour of, all adopted texts.

HRC participation

During HRC general discussions, panel debates and interactive dialogues with the Special Procedures, during the past three years, either as an HRC member or not, the State has joined:

Regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 78

Subregional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 50

134

Political group
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 109

109

Cross-regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 96

Other joint
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 5

HRC member empty chair?

Overall, as a HRC member, has participated in more than 10% of panel discussions, general debates and interactive dialogues.

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Completed
Invitation sent by the State not (yet) accepted by the SP
Accepted / date set
Visit request by the SP and not (yet) accepted by the State
Postponed / cancelled

Longest visit request not (yet) accepted by the State >
SR on freedom of religion, 1999

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Ratification status
Party Not Party
Individual complaint procedure accepted.
Reporting status

Submitted on time
Submitted late
Not applicable

On schedule
Overdue (outstanding)

CAT

ICCPR

CED

CEDAW

CERD

ICESCR

CRC

CRPD

Most overdue report

CERD
13 Years

OP-CAT

Ratified

NPM established

Universal Periodic Review

Reported

(2008, 2012, 2017)

Mid-term report

Level of delegation

Interministerial

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 78 / 192

2^nd cycle: 192 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Cited in the Secretary General’s reports on 'alleged reprisals for cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights' (2010-2024)?

YES

Response to allegations from government concerned?
YES

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 13

Indonesia presented a note verbale in support of its candidature for membership for the period 2020-2022 on 15 July 2019. In the note, Indonesia pledges to, inter alia, at the international level: advance international cooperation to ensure that the UN human rights pillar contributes to peace and stability, as well as development; continue to engage with the human rights mechanisms to further promote and protect human rights, and play a more active role in promoting dialogue and interfaith cooperation; ensure that all human rights (civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as the right to development) are given equal emphasis in the work of the Council and OHCHR; support the efforts of the OIC to promote and protect human rights across its member States.

An analysis of the steps taken by Indonesia to fulfil its pledges shows that it engaged with the Council as a member of the Working Group on Situations (2020, 2022). It further participated through individual statements in 40% of all Council dialogues, debates, and panels. Indonesia has responded to over 90% of all recommendations received from Special Procedures, but it does not maintain a Standing Invitation and has only facilitated 39% of the visit requests it has received. Indonesia has ratified 7 treaties but no individual complaints procedures. It was two overdue periodic reports (CAT and CERD) and tends to submit late its reports.

Indonesia

Asia – Pacific Group (APG)

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Voting record

HRC participation

HRC member empty chair?

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Universal Periodic Review

Participation in other reviews 1st cycle: 78 / 192

2nd cycle: 192 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 13

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 78 / 192

2^nd cycle: 192 / 192