{"id":153006,"date":"2018-02-15T04:12:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=153006"},"modified":"2018-02-15T04:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:12:50","slug":"hrw-batos-award-from-indonesian-police-a-gross-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/15\/hrw-batos-award-from-indonesian-police-a-gross-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"HRW: Bato’s award from Indonesian police a ‘gross insult’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The INP awarded its highest award, which is the \u201cBintang Bhayangkara Utama\u201d to Dela Rosa during a grand conferment ceremony at the Indonesian Police Academy headquarters in Jakarta. (Photo:<\/a> Philippine National Police\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Human Rights Watch (HRW) lambasted the Indonesian government for awarding Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald \u201cBato\u201d Dela Rosa of a medal of honor given by Indonesian National Police (INP).<\/p>\n

On February 14, Wednesday, HRW Deputy Director of Asian Division Phelim Kine said in a statement that the award \u201cdishonors the rule of law\u201d and is a \u201cgross insult\u201d to the victims of the Philippine government’s war on drugs.<\/p>\n

The INP awarded its highest award \u201cBintang Bhayangkara Utama\u201d to Dela Rosa during a grand conferment ceremony at the Indonesian Police Academy headquarters in Jakarta.<\/p>\n

During the ceremony, Indonesia\u2019s National Police Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian commended Dela Rosa for being a \u201crockstar-like inspiration to the Indonesian national police and the Indonesian people on how to fight the war on drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kine\u00a0 called the appraisal a \u201cperverse assessment\u201d of a Philippine government official, saying Dela Rosa is \u201cimplicated in possible\u00a0crimes against humanity\u00a0for inciting and instigating killings linked to the government\u2019s \u201cwar on drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to HRW, \u201cDela Rosa has obstructed calls for accountability for those deaths\u00a0by\u00a0dismissing\u00a0requests for independent investigations as \u201clegal harassment\u201d and declaring that such demands \u201cdampens the morale\u201d of police officers.”<\/p>\n

He also said that Indonesia\u2019s police chief Karnavian has \u201cexpressed fondness for violent extrajudicial approaches to illegal drug use previously.”<\/p>\n

Kine also called on Indonesian President Joko Widodo to join calls for a United Nations-led\u00a0international investigation\u00a0into the country\u2019s drug war rather than honoring one of its \u201cchief architects.”<\/p>\n

The award came two weeks after the PNP returned to the anti-drug operations on January 29 with their new guidelines requiring human rights advocates to join the operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Human Rights Watch (HRW) lambasted the Indonesian government for awarding Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald \u201cBato\u201d Dela Rosa …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":153015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[13659,34693,20100,18681],"class_list":["post-153006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-director-general-ronald-bato-dela-rosa","tag-human-rights-watch-hrw","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-philippine-national-police-pnp","mauthors-michealina-vallarta-david","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}