TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry on Monday, March 18, responded to recent inquiries by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (CCPR) member Bacre Waly Ndiaye about President Jokowi’s neutrality in the 2024 Presidential Election.

In a recent session of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (CCPR) held in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 12, Ndiaye pointed out Jokowi’s alleged intervention regarding the candidacy of his son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, in the election. Gibran managed to become Prabowo Subianto's running mate after the Constitutional Court ruling on the presidential age limit.

Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explained that the CCPR session is a routine interactive dialogue between the Human Rights Committee and the state parties. Its purpose is, among other things, to identify capacity-building needs, rather than to judge the implementation of human rights among state parties.

The Human Rights Committee consists of 18 independent experts elected by voting at the UN and do not represent any government or UN body. The presence of state parties at the meeting is voluntary, and Indonesia's presence is a form of commitment to implement the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

“The UN Human Rights Committee highly appreciated Indonesia's presentation and presence. Regarding the comments of one member of the Human Rights Committee from Senegal and several other questions, they did not have time to respond because there were quite a lot of questions and time did not permit. This is a common situation in such interactive dialogues,” Iqbal said.

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