Marzuki Darusman is Co-Founder and Chairman of Foundation for International Human Rights Reporting Standards, a non-profit that targets the advancement of human rights in all areas. In 2010 he was assigned as Chair of the UN Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka, and was the UN Secretary General’s Special Rapporteur for North Korea, 2010-2016 and also a Member of UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korea.
In August 2017, Darusman was appointed as the Chair for the UN Independent International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar (IIFFMM). The IIFFMM released its full 440-page account of the findings of its 15-month examination of the situation in Myanmar in September 2018, reiterating its call for the investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief and his top military leaders for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The IIFFMM handed over its evidence to the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), also mandated by the Human Rights Council and operational since 30 August 2019.
Darusman is a former Attorney General of Indonesia and served as Member of Parliament until 2009. As Attorney General, he led a wide-ranging corruption investigation
of former President Suharto and family and he prosecuted cases of corruption, mass murder, and human rights abuses that symbolized the inequities of the three-decade rule of Suharto. Darusman took the unprecedented step of placing Suharto under “city arrest” and arrested several of his business associates. He also investigated General Wiranto, the former armed forces commander, for crimes against humanity in East Timor.