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The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (, KontraS) is an Indonesian human rights organization established in 1998 to investigate
forced disappearance An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a State (polity), state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the i ...
s and acts of violence. It was founded by human rights activist
Munir Said Thalib Munir Said Thalib (8 December 1965 – 7 September 2004) was an Indonesian activist. Founder of the Kontras human rights organisation and laureate of the 2000 Right Livelihood Award, Munir was assassinated in 2004 while travelling to Utrecht ...
, who in 2004 was poisoned on a flight to Amsterdam.


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Missing people organizations Human rights organizations based in Indonesia {{Indonesia-org-stub