HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDONESIA

Early day motion 1109, tabled 18 March 1998 by Ann Clwyd (Labour). Signed by 67 members.

That this House is deeply concerned about the current human rights situation in Indonesia; calls on the Indonesian government to stop arresting people who are demonstrating peacefully, to release immediately all individuals who have been detained for the non-violent exercise of their beliefs and to allow those kept in detention to have access to lawyers, doctors and their families; further calls on the Indonesian government to allow access by human rights monitors to all areas of Indonesia and East Timor; and urges the United Kingdom government to raise these concerns with the Indonesian government and at the Asia Europe Meeting in London and to seek assurances from the Indonesian authorities that any military, security and police equipment that has been exported from the United Kingdom to Indonesia is not being used to commit human rights violations.

Signatures by party: Labour 47, Liberal Democrat 12, Labour/Co-operative 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Scottish National Party 2, Conservative 1.