1. Marzuki Darusman was born on 26 January 1945 and is an Indonesian lawyer and human rights campaigner who served as the Attorney General of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001.
17 Facts About Marzuki Darusman
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Marzuki Darusman currently serves as the chairman of an UN Human Rights Council mission on Myanmar since July 2017.
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Marzuki Darusman is the Director-General of the Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN.
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Marzuki Darusman served as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK and member of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea.
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In 1994, Marzuki Darusman was one of the first members of the National Commission on Human Rights.
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In 1998, after the fall of President Suharto in May, Marzuki Darusman was a member of the Joint Fact Finding Team, which looked into the widespread rioting and pogroms before the president's resignation.
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Marzuki Darusman subsequently convinced the party to support Muslim cleric Abdurrahman Wahid, of Nahdlatul Ulama, for president.
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In November 1999 Marzuki Darusman was chosen Attorney General of Indonesia, replacing acting Prosecutor General Ismudjoko; he had previously been considered for Foreign Minister, a post which ultimately went to Alwi Shihab.
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In criminal law, Marzuki Darusman was instrumental in removing former Chief of the Armed Forces Wiranto from his cabinet position, later bringing Wiranto to trial for alleged human rights violations in East Timor and several military members to trial for issues in Aceh.
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Marzuki Darusman's term ended in June 2001, when he was replaced with former Minister of Law and Human Rights Baharuddin Lopa.
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From 2004 to 2009 Marzuki Darusman served as a member of the People's Representative Council, representing Golkar.
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In 2008, Marzuki Darusman was called by Lynn Pascoe, an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, to participate in the United Nations inquiry into the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
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Marzuki Darusman accepted, and the committee spent nine months investigating the incident through 2009.
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The report, which found evidence of numerous war crimes and condemned both the Sri Lankan government and its Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, was ill-received in Sri Lanka, leading Marzuki Darusman to be burned in effigy and refused entry to the island nation.
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In 2011, Marzuki Darusman described the country as "perhaps the only country today that does not recognize that non-cooperation with the human rights mechanism is not an option"; he believes that North Korea must give greater respect to human rights, while other nations must be willing to send humanitarian aid.
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Marzuki Darusman is the Chairman and Founder of The Foundation for International Human Rights Reporting Standards, an international association dedicated to the respect, protection and fulfilment of human rights.
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Marzuki Darusman is a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organization which works to support democratic leadership, prevent and resolve conflict through mediation and promote good governance in the form of democratic institutions, open markets, human rights and the rule of law.