Indonesian VP receives Abu Dhabi’s delegation

JAKARTA: Indonesian Vice President Ma’ruf Amin received Al-mahfouz Bin Bayyah, Secretary General of the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace, at his official residence in Jakarta on Friday.

During the meeting, Al-mahfouz invited the Vice President to atend the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace, which will be held in Abu Dhabi, in December 2022.

The Vice President said that he was honored by the invite and expressed his willingness to attend the forum.

Amin said Indonesia and Abu Dhabi have a common vision for peace and tolerance amid diversity.

He then highlighted Indonesia’s experience in realizing a harmonious life.

For his part, the Secretary-general of the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum thanked the Indonesian Vice President, stressing the keenness of the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace to learn lessons from Indonesia’s experience of peaceful coexistence between different religions, sects and cultures.

Invitations were also delivered to Yaqut Cholil Qoumas as Indonesia’s Minister of Religious Affairs, and a number of Indonesian religious leaders.

Separately, a delegation from the National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), led by Maqsood Kruse, Chairperson of the NHRI, participated in the “Internationalconferencetopromotetheprotection of the Right to Privacy in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Challenges”, held recently in Egypt.

The event was atended by representatives of national human rights institutions, legal experts, communications technology, media and human rights from 23 countries, along with representatives of executive, legislative and judicial authorities, and leaders of 32 non-governmental human rights organisations in 16 Arab and seven European countries.

The conference was organised by the Arab Organisation for Human Rights and the Standing High Commission on Human Rights in Cairo.

It addressed the challenges of protecting the right to privacy in light of the developments of artificial intelligence, as one of the most critical issues to the human rights movement and jurists worldwide.