Marzuki Darusman | |
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Attorney General of Indonesia | |
In office November 1999 – June 2001 | |
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK | |
In office January 2010 – September 2016 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Bogor, West Java, Indonesia | 26 January 1945
Political party | Golkar |
Alma mater | Parahyangan Catholic University |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Marzuki Darusman (born 26 January 1945) is an Indonesian lawyer and human rights campaigner who served as the Attorney General of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of an UN Human Rights Council mission on Myanmar since July 2017. He is the Director-General of the Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN.
Darusman has served on several national and international human rights commissions, he has served as chair of an independent Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar under the UN Human Rights Council since July 2017. He served as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK (2010–2016) and member of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea (2013 to 2014). In 2010, he was assigned to serve as chair of the UN Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka and in 2009 he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to a three-member UN Commission of Inquiry to investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.[1]