How could Suharto avoid prosecution for human rights abuses? For a preliminary answer, this paper provides an account of a specific and observable failure: The failure of the Suharto study team, a Komnas- HAM (National Commission of Human Rights) initiative to put the atrocities of the Suharto era on the human rights court track. It begins with prosecutorial approaches toward past abuses and a lack of coordination over transitional justice strategies in Indonesia as the background to Suharto’s non-prosecution. Then, it proceeds to trace the Suharto study team’s life in 2003 until its defeat. The fate of the Suharto team highlights the dilemma of timing between public attention and political capabilities in transitional justice. Five years after Suharto stepped down, legacies from the past prevented progress in the case, while the impact was far from explosive when new commissioners of the Komnas- HAM finally announced the findings of gross violations in 2012.

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苏哈托案

苏哈托如何避免因侵犯人权而受到起诉？作为初步答案，本文提供了一个具体且可观察到的失败的说明：苏哈托研究小组的失败，这是一个 Komnas-HAM（国家人权委员会）倡议，将苏哈托时代的暴行置于人权法庭上追踪。它始于对过去的虐待行为的起诉方法以及印度尼西亚过渡时期司法战略缺乏协调，这是苏哈托不起诉的背景。然后，它继续追踪苏哈托研究小组在 2003 年的生活，直到它失败。苏哈托团队的命运凸显了过渡时期司法中公众关注与政治能力之间的时间困境。苏哈托下台五年后，过去的遗产阻碍了案件的进展，