• PROGRAM

DIVISI-DIVISI Monitoring The Reference-Only Complaint Unit The Division of Legal and Policy Reformation The Sub-commission of the Development of the Recovery System Education and R&D GUGUS KERJA The Task Force on Papua The Special Rapporteur and Task Force for Aceh The Task Force and the Special Rapporteur for Poso Gugus Kerja Kekerasan Masa Lalu Special Rapporteur for May 1998 Riot The Task Force of Women in the Constitution and the National Legislation (PKHN) The Task Force on Migrant Workers

Sub-commission of Monitoring

The main function of the commission is to disclose, systematically and regularly, the facts on the violence against women, including the gender based gross violation of human rights, and the state’s performance in fulfilling its goal of eliminating violence against women and upholding the women’s human rights. Hitherto those cases of violence go undetected for the victims are often silenced, and the lack of special initiative from the existing human rights mechanism to unwrap the women’s experience in an event of human rights violation.

In fulfilling its monitoring role, Komnas Perempuan takes on a three part approach:

• Developing the monitoring network in the provinces, based on the assumption that the society is the first witness to the human rights situation in each own neighborhood.
• Collecting and reporting the data on the violence against women annually, taken from the institutions that are directly involved in such cases.
• Direct fact-finding efforts on-site, based on the public report, to discover a possible violation of the women’s human rights.

The mechanism of reporting and building network with local partners

In its history, the sub-commission has monitored various violations of human rights.

The collected data is analyzed annually to measure the improvement in the capacity to address the cases of violence against women. The challenge of collecting and analyzing data is great not only from the ineptness in the data-collecting process, but more so from the lack of standardized national documentation. The mechanism used until 2008 is:

• The Annual Report (CATAHU): 2001, 2202, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (in writing)
• Special Rapporteurs:

1. Special Rapporteur for Aceh, has published the report “As victims, but also as survivors.”
2. Special Rapporteur for May 1998 Riot, has published the report “It is time to establish the security for the people,” an advance in the fulfillment of the rights of the woman victims of the sexual assaults of the May 1998 Riot.
3. Special Rapporteur for Poso, is still in progress.

In the monitoring process with its network of local partners, Komnas Perempuan has cooperated with:

The partners’ network in Aceh. With this partner, Komnas Perempuan monitored:

• The sexual assaults in the areas of armed conflict;
• Woman prisoners’ conditions
• The justice process against perpetrators of sexual assaults

When the tsunami hit Aceh, the monitoring process stopped for a while and the concerns about the fate of the partners compelled a “wide ranged recovery” activities, and the Aceh Task Force, with a special mission to monitor the women’s conditions at the refugees’ barracks.

The Monitoring Network in Maumere, the municipality of Sika, Flores. The network monitors cases of violence against women in the municipality. The results are reported annually in a compiled annual Komnas Perempuan report.

The Monitoring Network in Ruteng, the municipality of Manggarai, West Flores. The network monitors cases of violence against women in the areas of conflicts over natural resources, domestic violence and community-based violence against women. The results have been compiled in the annual report of Komnas Perempuan.

Direct fact-finding efforts on-site, based on the public report, to discover a possible violation of the women’s human rights

Sometimes the public came up with reports to Komnas Perempuan, and Komnas Perempuan promptly responded with on-site monitoring or the formation of a task force. The efforts so far:

The Monitoring on the Polution of the Buyat Bay area, which has resulted in the Report of the Monitoring on the Polution of the Buyat Bay.

The monitoring on the woman coffee planters in Colol, the municipality of Manggarai. The result: The Report on the Coffee Plantation Destruction in the Municipality of Manggarai, West Flores.

The monitoring on the integrated garbage management facility in Bojong, the municipality of Bogor, West Java. The result: The Monitoring on Bojong Case.

The monitoring on the marble quarry in Mollo, the district of SoE, the municipality of South-east Timor, East Nusatenggara. The report would be compiled into the Report on the Mapping of the Violence against Women in the Context of Conflict over Natural Resources (on going).

The monitoring over the case of violence against the Ahmadiyah community in West Nusatenggara and Cianjur (West Java). The result: The Monitoring Report on the Ahmadiyah Women and Children as Victims of Multi-layered Discrimination.

The Poso Task Force, resulted in the Monitoring Report of the Special Rapporteur of Poso (in finalization process)

The 1965 Task Force, which resulted in the report Gender-based Crime against Humanity: Listening to the Voices of the Woman Victims of 1965 Massacre.

The monitoring on the Hot Mud Geyser in Sidoarjo. The result is an internal Komnas Perempuan report, still in the integration process to the Report on the Mapping of the Violence against Women in the Context of Conflict over Natural Resources (on going).

The monitoring of the Alas Tlogo case in Pasuruan, East Java. The result: an internal Komnas Perempuan report on the human rights conditions of women in Alas Tlogo.

Monitoring through the Reference-Only Complaint Unit

Aside from the two above-mentioned mechanisms, Komnas Perempuan also has a Reference-Only Complaint Unit. This unit accepts complaints from victims reporting their cases to Komnas Perempuan. However, the mandate of Komnas Perempuan does not entail a direct service towards the victims. And thus the reporting victims are referred to our partners. The reports, though, will make it to our annual report. Reporting by email and regular mail is also accepted. In fact, a special staff is hired to handle such reporting. Reporting by mail usually asks for support towards cases already attended to by lawyers. Komnas Perempuan will gladly grant support towards the expedient closure in the cases of violence against women nationwide. The Sub-commission of Monitoring is currently writing a Reference Book on the Monitoring of the Violation of the Women’s Human Rights and the Violence against Women; for hitherto no such gender-based human rights monitoring reference exists. Komnas Perempuan is also currently undergoing a research and reporting project on the mapping of the cases of violence against women in the conflict over natural resources. The Sub-commission of Monitoring is also in the process of finalizing some monitoring reports to be published soon. The annual reports have been a regular mechanism in disclosing and documenting facts on the violence against women, the service provided towards the victims and the struggle for the rights of the victims.