Supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument.
Indonesia is not a state party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and has not participated in any meetings on autonomous weapons systems in that forum. Indonesia is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, which supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems.
At the 77th UN General Assembly First Committee meeting in October 2022, Indonesia stated that ‘challenges posed by the autonomy in weapons systems also deserve serious attention. We believe that machines should not kill people and therefore reject the automation of killing.'[1]Statement by Indonesia, 77th UN General Assembly First Committee meeting, https://reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/1com/1com22/statements/3Oct_Indonesia.pdf
Indonesia delivered a statement on behalf of the NAM at the UN General Assembly First Committee in 2020, which stated that autonomous weapons systems raise a ‘number of ethical, legal, moral, technical, as well as international peace and security related questions, which should be thoroughly deliberated and examined in the context of conformity to international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law.’[2]Statement by Indonesia on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, 09 October 2020, UN General Assembly First Committee, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1p/k1p80apgp6; please note that this link leads to … Continue reading Indonesia has not spoken independently on the need for a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. The Non-Aligned Movement has stressed that there is an ‘urgent need to pursue a legally binding instrument under the Convention that will contain prohibitions and regulations for addressing the humanitarian and international security challenges posed by emerging technologies in the area of LAWS.’[3]Statement by Non-Aligned Movement, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/RCHCP6-13-12-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; … Continue reading
References
| ↑1 | Statement by Indonesia, 77th UN General Assembly First Committee meeting, https://reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/1com/1com22/statements/3Oct_Indonesia.pdf |
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| ↑2 | Statement by Indonesia on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, 09 October 2020, UN General Assembly First Committee, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1p/k1p80apgp6; please note that this link leads to the full recording of the relevant meeting. |
| ↑3 | Statement by Non-Aligned Movement, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/RCHCP6-13-12-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note that this link leads to the full recording & transcript of the relevant meeting. |