
Refugee law
Indonesia is not a signatory the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, nor its 1967 protocol. The Indonesian government indicated a plan to accede to the Convention in 2009 according to the government’s Human Rights Action Plan, but there has been no indication of when this will occur.
However, the right to seek asylum has been guaranteed in the Indonesian Constitution Article 28G (2), which says “Each person has the right to be free from torture or inhuman and degrading treatment and shall be entitled to obtain political asylum from another country”.