Human Rights and ASEAN: Advancing Regional Mechanisms and Civil Society

Rafendi served as the first Indonesian Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and is a key civil society leader in the human rights movement in Southeast Asia (see biography below).

We look forward to an engaging conversation with Rafendi about the promotion and protection of human rights in the ASEAN region!

Biography

Mr Rafendi Djamin is the Senior Adviser of Human Rights Working Group (HRWG)-Indonesia. He is also former Regional Director for South East Asia and Pacific of Amnesty International, former Executive Director of the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG), a coalition of Indonesian NGO’s for International Human Rights Advocacy based in Jakarta.

Mr Djamin served as first Indonesian Representative for ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) from 2009-2015, and held a position as the chair of AICHR in 2011. He recieved his Masters degree in Development Studies in 1989 from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Since 1992, Mr. Djamin has worked on lobby and advocacy on human rights, democracy and humanitarian problems in Indonesia to both Inter-governmental bodies and UN human Rights mechanisms.

Mr. Djamin specializes and trains in human rights and democracy in Indonesia and ASEAN, gives lectures in various University and high Learning Institutions in Indonesia and abroad.

Mr Djamin is currently member of Advisory Board of Association on the Prevention of Torture (APT), based in Geneva; and ASEAN CSR Network, based in Singapore. He is also a member of the Governing Board of Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN , based in university of Indonesia-Jakarta.