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Amerika Serikat|Coganews.co.id-Thank you, Madam Chair.
Excellencies Speakers of Parliaments,
Honorable Member of Parliaments,
and Distinguished Delegates,
My name is Hafisz Tohir. I am the Vice Chair of the Committee for Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation of Indonesian Parliament.
Speaking on behalf of Indonesian Parliament delegation, I have few points to deliver.
- I agree with all panelists that COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the existing inequalities and widening both social and economy gaps in our society.
- In this regard, I believe that states bear the primary responsibility to respect, protect, and fulfil the basic human rights of everyone, and ensure them to be treated equally and inclusively. More importantly, it is our duty as representative of all groups of society to promote and ensure the inclusive decision-making process and more broadly, a democratic political process that leave no one behind.
- Let me share Indonesian experience in this regard. At the international level, we have ratified the international human rights instruments and agreements such as (bisa dibaca singkatannya saja Bapak): Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and SDGs targets.
- And at the national level, we have enacted a number of laws ensuring the inclusive democracy in accordance with the principle of human rights for all parts of society; (1) Law on Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers, (2) Law on Disabilities, and (3) Law on Advancement of Culture.
- Social justice and respect to diversity have been at the heart of Indonesia national ideology, Pancasila, which reflect to the way we interact with each other. Pancasila also introduces the concept of nationhood in Indonesia – as we consist of more than 1,300 recognized ethnic groups in which every ethnic is speaking their own local languages and perform their own cultures – and this lays the foundation of “unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation”.
- Pancasila unites our diverse society based on the principles of: human being as individual and social being; human being as physical and spiritual being; and human being as universal and particular being. All of them become the foundation for us to establish the principles of mutual help, respect, sympathy, and caring; or we usually call it gotong royong (mutual cooperation). And we hope to amplify this spirit of cooperation at the international level, and all multilateral efforts that we do in the recovery process to build a more resilient world.
- Last but not least, I will briefly touch upon our commitment as the current President of the G20 Countries. Indonesia is proud to represent the developing world, emerging economies, and island countries in this economic cooperation forum. Through our leadership, we strive to bridge the views of developed and developing countries in order to build a stronger, and more resilient world for all. Thus, we welcome any discussions, collaboration, and cooperation in an effort to achieve inclusive world, and build a healthier as well as an equitable world governance in this regard.
Thank you.