Refugee Rights
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Refugee Rights
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(Jakarta, 27 November 2023) SUAKA menyuarakan kekecewaan terhadap pernyataan Bapak Hikmahanto Juwana...
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Refugee Rights Are Human Rights
SUAKA works to protect and promote the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia. Since SUAKA’s establishment it has focused on the following three working groups
Empowerment & Legal Aid
Providing legal aid, advice and information to refugees as well as empowering refugees to understand and advocate for their human rights
Public Awareness Raising
Conducting Indonesian based campaigns on asylum seekers and refugee issues to raise public awareness
Research & Policy Advocacy
Collecting and analyzing data in order to pursue policy changes that enhance the rights of refugees and asylum seekers
// About SUAKA
Legal Aid Organization
“SUAKA” is the Bahasa Indonesia word for asylum.
SUAKA is an association for the protection of refugee rights. We are a network of voluntary civil society, consisting of individuals and organizations that aim to work for the protection and advancement of the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia. Growing from awareness of the situation of vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia, several civil society organizations and caring individuals gathered in October 2012 and committed to assisting refugees and asylum seekers.
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Seeking Asylum is not illegal
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An asylum seeker is someone who is still in the stage of seeking protection and/or their protection application process has not been completed.
Asylum seekers must go through the Refugee Status Determination (RSD) process before they can be legally declared as refugees. The RSD process in Indonesia is limited only to UNHCR Indonesia.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proclaimed at the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 and became a guideline for human rights in the world, including Indonesia.
Convention against Torture. was ratified by Indonesia in 1998 through Law Number 5 of 1998. The point regarding asylum seekers that can be underlined from this convention is in article 3 paragraph 1: “No State Party shall expel, return (“refouler”) or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.”
Indonesia’s commitment is stated in Article 28 of Human Rights Law No. 39 of 1999 which states “Everyone has the right to seek asylum to obtain political protection from another country.” Indonesia has also made Presidential Regulation 125 of 2016 (Perpres 125) concerning Handling of Refugees from Abroad](https://suaka.or.id/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)