Practice Relating to Rule 117. Accounting for Missing Persons
Indonesia’s Military Manual (1982) provides: “The parties to the conflict should search for missing persons, who are reported by the adverse party, soon after the hostilities cease.”
In 1995, during a debate in the UN Security Council, Indonesia associated itself “with the demands that … representatives of UNHCR, the ICRC and other international agencies [be granted] unconditional access to persons … reported missing”.