THE PEOPLE’S COURT or People’s Court needs to be studied to reveal crimes in the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres). This People’s Court, which is held and opened internationally, was carried out when trying human rights crimes in 1965.
Indonesian historian Asvi Warman Adam explained that he had seen the People’s Court conducted by the Indonesian side.
The court, known as the International People’s Tribunal, regarding the 1965 crime was held in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2015, called IPT 1965. Asvi said the Indonesian people could bring the 2024 presidential election fraud to that court.
“Because there is a desire to do that in Indonesia after the 2024 elections take place,” said Asvi in an online discussion entitled People’s Court for Election Justice, Is it Necessary?, Monday (15/4).
Asvi said that the People’s Court tried Incident 65 because legal efforts that had been carried out since the Reformation era had failed. Thousands of lives were lost during this incident so that the people demanded justice against the five Presidents of the Republic of Indonesia.
“This effort failed in 2006. Not only did it fail, but the process of holding the trial also did not proceed smoothly because those who testified or those who were going to come to court were harassed by mass organizations such as the FPI and others. Some time later an attempt emerged that other than just demands in court,” added Asvi.
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Therefore, continued Asvi, Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer, an American and British film director, made the film Butcher in 2012. The film Butcher is special because after the reform era, what emerged were books and seminars about the testimonies of victims.
In the film Butcher, he continued, what was interesting was the perpetrator who spoke and made a confession. The film Butcher is set in North Sumatra and tells the story of a Pancasila youth member who works as a ticket taker at a cinema.
“It turned out that he was also the perpetrator of the massive murder in Medan. And he also told me how lightly that to kill that person, he simply tied the wire around the person’s neck, and then pulled the wire at the end so that the person’s neck could be cut off. “So, this ferocity was shown in the film Butcher in 2012,” he said.
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With the background of the film, an action called the International People’s Tribunal was initiated regarding case 65. According to him, the court was held in The Hague, Netherlands because Indonesia was not safe.
“And the Hague historically, international rights tribunals have been held several times in The Hague. And then there they were held safely, there were no demonstrations and so on. And the international tribunal was held in Newquay ,” explained Asvi.
Then seven International Panels of Judges were formed, all of whom came from abroad. They are not paid, aka pro bono. The judges are judges or prosecutors in their respective countries.
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The assembly was chaired by Yusyaf Yaakob from South Africa, a former constitutional judge in South Africa who is blind. Then there is also a member from England, Geoffrey Nish.
Then Helen Jarvis, an Australian citizen and Cambodian citizen. Helen Jarvis is the author of a dissertation on Tan Malaka. He has been to Indonesia several times and during the New Order era he was prohibited from entering Indonesia. He translated the book From Prison to Prison Tan Malaka into English.
“So, he really understands about Indonesia. And then there is Mireille Fanon-Mendek from France and John Gintings in England whose names in this symposium are sometimes written in Rilu,” explained Asvi.
The prosecutor consisted of seven people from LBH and Kontras and others, coordinated by Todung Mulya Lubis. There was one foreigner there who was also a prosecutor in the Cambodian Tribunal, namely Silke Studzinski.
The trial lasted four days, deliberately choosing Heroes’ Day on November 10.
“The judge then or this court decided that the Indonesian state was responsible for crimes against humanity in 1965,” stressed Asvi.
Asvi considers this decision to be very, very harsh, which legally does not provide obligations for the Indonesian government. However, morally and politically this provides encouragement or sanctions that the state has committed violence or serious human rights violations and the Indonesian government should take further action to follow up on this court’s conclusion.
“That is an overview of the international human rights court in The Hague that I can give. This is to give an idea of whether we in Indonesia can now hold a national court on this topic,” he concluded. (Ykb/Z-7)
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