Training Workshop on Human Rights and Harm Reduction Program

Since 1997, Indonesia imposed drug laws that focus on imprisonment to people who use drugs. Punishment is given in order to produce a deterrent effect. Indonesian government assumes that punitive policy will reduce people’s interest to consume illegal drugs, so the drug problem could be solved easily. At the same time, Government endorsed anti-drug campaigns that highlight the criminal side of drug use and people who use drugs. The campaigns are discredited people who use drugs who essentially are victims of illicit drug trafficking. In implementing the policy, violation of human rights are often occurred, such as police raid in home and in public places, ill treatment and even torture at prison and detention center. In these cases, very little effort made ​​to conduct surveillance and investigation in the issue. 

To support the program related to harm reduction issues, AJAR Training center will conduct a training workshop on documenting human rights violations against PUD. The training will focus on the harm reduction approach and the use of human rights based perspectives to deal with issues of PUD. The Training workshop will be conducted at 10 - 15 October 2011 at AJAR Training Center, Bali Indonesia. 

1. To Increase understanding and capacity on 'how to do’ monitoring and documentation human rights violations against PUD using event-based methodology                                                
2. To Improve quality of reporting, documentation and advocacy on human rights violations against people who use drugs in Indonesia     
3. To identify and share advocacy goals among communities of people who use drugs.
4. To engage more communities of people who use drugs in monitoring, documenting and reporting human rights violations against people who use drugs.
5. To develop ways to utilize and improve documentation efforts to expose law enforcement abuses against people who use drugs

 Further information contact: ajarfoundation@gmail.com