President Joko Widodo acknowledged gross human rights violations in Indonesia’s past in the clearest admission yet of the country’s darkest chapters.
“With a clear mind and earnest heart, I as Indonesia’s head of state admit that gross human rights violations did happen in many occurrences, and I deeply regret these human rights abuses,” Jokowi, as the president is known, said on Wednesday after receiving a report from the team formed to help restore the victims’ rights.