Limits of Amnesty Law – Based on several practices around the world, there are two ways applied by national governments to justify the relationship between amnesty law and attempted reconciliation (Mallinder, 2008). Firstly, amnesty’s aim is to promote reconciliation as national unity. Secondly, amnesty is used to call for reconciliation as forgetting crimes of the past. Under such understanding, in order to draw the nexus between amnesty law and reconciliation in post-conflict societies, any conditions attached to amnesty laws shall reflect the very idea of reconciliation envisioned by the drafters (Kushleyko, 2015; Trumbull IV, 2007). Based on the Helsinki Peace Agreement between the Government of Indonesia and Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), it is quite apparent that the provisions shed more of a reflection of the state’s dominance in the negotiation rather than putting the agreement under a ‘balanced equation’ (Aspinall, 2008).
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Author: Harison Citrawan
Topic: Human Rights