E/C.12/IDN/CO/1
(b)
Identify and demarcate customary lands and forests, resolve disputes
thereon, in consultation with representatives of Masyarakat Hukum Adat and the
national human rights institutions.
Languages
40.
The Committee is concerned that a number of languages in the State party are at risk
of disappearance, in spite of the measures taken by the Language Development Agency
(art. 15).
The Committee recommends that the State party pursue efforts aimed at the
preservation of endangered languages, including by promoting their use and by
documenting them. In this regard, the Committee recommends that the State party
invest resources for the effective implementation of Ministry of Education and
Culture Regulation 81 A of 2013 on Implementation of Curriculum for the inclusion
of the teaching of local languages in the primary school curricula, especially as it
pertains to endangered languages.
D.
Other recommendations
41.
The Committee encourages the State party to consider signing and ratifying the
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights.
42. The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding
observations widely at all levels of society, particularly among parliamentarians,
public officials, judicial authorities and civil society organizations, and to inform the
Committee in its next periodic report on the steps taken to implement them.
43.
The Committee encourages the State party to engage civil society organizations
in constructive cooperation in the process of preparation and submission of its next
periodic report.
44.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its second periodic report in
accordance with the guidelines adopted by the Committee in 2008 (E/C.12/2008/2), by
30 May 2019.
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