Jakarta, Nov. 9 -- The Indonesian government has established an inter-agency working group to resolve long-standing procedural deadlocks between investigators and rights monitors handling past alleged gross human rights violations, officials said Monday.

Led by Deputy Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections Otto Hasibuan, the working group includes representatives from the Attorney General's Office, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), the National Police, judicial figures, and legal scholars.

Coordinating Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra said the initiative follows directives from President Prabowo Subianto to resolve jurisdictional friction that has stalled investigations into historic r...