On 30 November 2021, the Foundation For International Human Rights Reporting Standards (FIHRRST) and Moores Rowland Indonesia, in cooperation with UNDP, launched the Study of the 2020 Sustainability Reports of Public Companies in Indonesia. This study followed the 2019 sustainability report study of public companies that FIHRRST launched in 2020....

UNDP and FIHRRST have carried out a pilot project of Human Rights Due Diligence and COVID-19: Rapid Self-Assessment for Business (C-19 RSAB) implementation by companies in Indonesia. The C-19 RSAB consists of recommended actions for six areas namely, occupational health and safety, labor rights, environmental and community effects, safeguarding po...

This article was published in The Jakarta Post paper edition, July 2, 2021, written by Bahtiar Manurung and Ratih A. Putri Ten years have passed since the unanimous endorsement of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) by the United Nations Human Rights Council on 16 June 2011. Although it has long been ac...

Myanmar is once again governed by military junta after nearly ten years of civilian rule. Business entities impacted by the coup are likely assessing their risk management programs and long-term sustainability goals. In considering how to move forward, companies must not forget consumers. Consumers understand that the situation in Myanmar is...

The Foundation for International Human Rights Reporting Standards (FIHRRST) has completed a study on the 2019 sustainability reports of all publicly listed companies in Indonesia. The study’s objective is to assess the compliance of public companies’ sustainability reports with criteria for sustainability report included in the Financial Ser...

One of the FIHRRST’s founders, the well-known economist Dr. Dradjad H. Wibowo, has just published a research article under the title “When can physical distancing be relaxed? A health production function approach for COVID-19 control policy.” It aims to demonstrate how the health production function can be used to assess the state of COVID-19 trans...

Of late, the national discourse has clearly been polarized: beneficiaries of the status quo who posit that all is well despite the bleeding current account deficit (CAD) and the glaring inequality on the one hand and those who maintain that the end is nigh, in denial of the progress made to address past injustices. Read more : http://www.th...

Human rights advocate Nadia Murad and physician Denis Mukwege have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in bringing wartime sexual violence into the spotlight. This is a timely reminder that sexual violence is being systematically and strategically used as a tool for the expansion of widespread terror and eventual military succ...