• The Indonesia Programme
• The Democracy Assessment Project (University of Oslo, Norway and DEMOS, Indonesia)
• in co-operation with the Oslo based International Network on Contextual Politics in Developing Countries (CPD)

invite you to attend

A Conference on the Implementation of and Access to Human Rights Based Democracy in Indonesia

Voksenåsen Conference Centre, Oslo, Norway

March 9-10, 2005

(Participation Information, Liv Hernæs Kvanvig, Tel. +47 22 84 20 30)

Conference Programme:

(Note: A few of the participants are yet to be confirmed)

Wednesday March 9

Session 1: Introduction
Moderator: Håkon A.Gulbrandsen, Adviser, Section for Human Rights and Democracy, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)

• 9.00 - 9.15: Welcome
• 9.15 - 9.45: Historical background of Indonesia (up until the year 2005) by Gyda M. Sindre (UiO) and Liv H. Kvanvig (NCHR)
• Break
• 10.00-10.45: Human Rights

What are the problems regarding human rights in Indonesia and what should be done? This session will be conducted in the form of a review of the current situation and of the experiences so far of providing support for human rights in Indonesia. Both the international community’s contribution in general and the Norwegian contribution in particular will be addressed. This will be followed by tentative propositions of what the major problems are and to what areas priority should be given in the years to come. 
There will also be time for questions of clarification.
Responsible: Knut D. Asplund, Programme Director, Indonesia Programme, NCHR

• Break
• 11.00 - 11.45: Democratisation

What are the problems regarding democratisation, including governance, in Indonesia and what should be done? This session will consist of a review of the current situation (based on DEMOS’ survey) and the experiences achieved so far from providing support to democratisation, including governance. As in the previous session, both the international community’s contribution in general and the Norwegian contribution in particular will be addressed. This will be followed by tentative propositions of what the major problems are and which areas should be prioritised in the future.
There will also be time for questions of clarification.
Responsible: Prof. Olle Törnquist, UiO/DEMOS

• Break
• 12.00-12.30:Comments

Comments from a comparative perspective by Eva Irene Tuft, Deputy Director, Department of Rights, Agents of Change and Civil Society, NORAD, and a representative from the Propaz Foundation, Guatemala

Session 2: Rule of law and the Protection of Human Rights
Moderator: Erland Flaterud, Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta (to be confirmed)

• 13.30 – 16.30: Remarks from:
  • Zacky Husein, Director Law Programmes, The Asia Foundation: Judicial and legal reform in post- Suharto Indonesia
  • Dr. Adriaan Bedner, Van Vollenhoven Insitute Leiden: The challenges of judicial and legal decentralization in Indonesia
  • Christian Ranheim, Legal Adviser, NCHR: Transitional justice; The Human Rights Courts and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • Asmara Nababan, Director, DEMOS: The politics of Human Rights – the real links between HR and democracy
  • Discussant: Lisa Stearns, Programme Director, NCHR
• Break for Dinner

Session 3: Workshop

• 19.30-21.00: Topics to be discussed: How to provide support for democracy and human rights in the best possible manner and the possibilities of including Indonesian academic institutions in this work. Presentation and discussion of NORAD’s and the MFA’s past experiences from as well as present and future policies towards Indonesia.

Participants in the workshop will be the main presenters, together with representatives from NCHR, UiO/DEMOS, Univeritas Gadjah Mada, the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta, NORAD and MFA.

Thursday March 10

Session 4: Local Dynamics of Human Rights Based Democratisation
Moderator: (to be confirmed)

• 09.00 - 12.00: Remarks from:
  • Prof. Henk Schulte Nordholt, Coordinator of the Indonesian Dutch Research Programme ‘Indonesia in Transition’, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies / IIAS Professor Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam: Lessons from efforts to support democratisation, civil society, decentralisation and good governance
  • Dr. Kari Telle, University of Bergen, Norway: Decentralisations and the Privatisation of Security on Lombok.
  • Otto Syamsuddin Ishak, Civil Society Alliance for Democracy/ Problems and Prospects of Democratisation with Special Emphasis on Aceh
  • Discussant: Raymond Johansen, Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Session 5: The Steps Ahead in the Indonesian Democratisation Process
Moderator: Stein Tønnesson, Director, International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo

• 13.00-14.45: Remarks from:
  • On lessons from support of democracy and good governance (speaker to be confirmed)
  • Prof. Olle Törnquist/DEMOS: The pro-democratic actors' lessons from Demos' survey and their own work: how to bring citizens in general and pro-democrats in particular into politics in order to promote implementation, performance and access to the instruments of HR-based democracy.
  • Discussant: Ingunn Klepsvik, Director, Department of Rights, Agents of Change and Civil Society, NORAD

Session 6: What should be done? What can Norway do?
Moderated by Prof. Bernt Hagtvet (UiO).

• 15.00 - 16-00: Concluding Discussion