About PBI Indonesia

: The Mandate of PBI Indonesia is to contribute to positive peacebuilding and the improvement of the Human Rights situation in Indonesia

The Mandate of PBI Indonesia is to contribute to positive peacebuilding and the improvement of the Human Rights situation in Indonesia through a proactive international presence, committed to the principles of non-violence and non-partisanship.

The Strategic Objectives of the PBI Indonesia Project are to create:

Increased peaceful space in which civil society can operate and grow

Improved space for dialogue among different levels of society to promote greater mutual understanding as a means for building peace and respecting Human Rights.

Increased awareness among the Indonesian authorities and the international community about the development of the Human Rights situation in Indonesia

Enhanced participation and empowerment of civil society actors working for social justice & Human Rights.

The end of the need for the PBI Indonesia Project

PBI responds to invitations from Indonesian civil society organisations working in conflict zones.

PBI is located in Jayapura and Wamena in Papua and in the capital city Jakarta, on the island of Java. Our work focuses on these three main areas:

Positive Peace Building (PPB)

Positive Peace building describes the activities that strive to achieve a society that is not only free from war (negative peace) but in which social justice and human rights prevail (positive peace). Positive Peace building is not only timely in a post-conflict situation but at any time - preventing the outbreak of violence, laying the ground for a lasting and sustainable peace agreement during violent conflict as well as re-building a just society after the outbreak of conflict.

Protective Services (PS)

Protective Services are a core strategy of positive peace building for the PBI Indonesia Project. Protective Services not only include physical accompaniment of human rights defenders at their office, at their homes or on field trips. Protective Services describe any activity that protects and encourages local human rights defenders to stay active and committed to building a more just society (positive peace). Check-in calls over the phone are one way of creating space for them by letting possible aggressors know that PBI, and with it, the international community, is present and concerned.

Participatory Peace Education (PPE)

Participatory Peace Education is another core strategy of positive peace building for the PBI Indonesia Project. Participatory Peace Education teams work together with local people to develop community peacebuilding activities that include, for example workshops or developing activities for the International Day of Peace. The methodology and core values of this work is based on the experience and work of John Paul Lederach amongst others. People and their
everyday understandings and experiences are seen as the key resource in a community and this knowledge is valued and trusted. PBI in this context provides a safe space for people to recognise, reflect upon and develop and share their own unique approaches to conflict to conflict situations in their daily lives, their community and society at large. PBI works from a
perspective which recognizes the strengths and capacities for peace in communities and incorporates principles of adult learning and popular education. A workshop with a focus on conflict resolution may have extensive parts in which the local wisdom and local strategies for mediation and conflict resolution is explored and unravelled and the participants build
their own models for working in their own communities and which are highly valued.