[1] Komnas HAM's jurisdiction included human rights issues in East Timor until the territory voted to secede from Indonesia.

Following calls for Komnas HAM to inquire into the 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre, the Human Rights Law of 2000 (No.

In 2008, it reopened an investigation into the 1998 Trisakti shootings in which four students were shot dead by state security forces at a demonstration demanding President Suharto's resignation.

[citation needed] In all of its work, Komnas HAM is required to have regard to human rights defined in national legislation and in international instruments to which Indonesia is party.

[3] In 2000, with support from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Komnas HAM secured 'A-status' accreditation from the peer review process of the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs (ICC), giving it enhanced access to the United Nations human rights bodies.