Jakarta – Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh said Wednesday that the Association of Relatives of Missing People (IKOHI) would not be able to bring the case of 13 missing activists to the Human Rights Court of the United Nations.

"The case is under discussion at the Attorney General's Office and the Human Rights Commission, while the government has yet to go through all legal procedures," the attorney general said, as quoted by Antara news agency.

Human Rights Commission chairman Abdul Hakim Garuda said the case could be brought to the international arena if the country did not have adequate, effective laws to process human rights violations.

The association of relatives planned to file the case – in which 13 activists went missing between 1997 and 1998 – with the UN court through the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances by late March.

Meanwhile, the Consultative Body of the House of Representatives declined the recommendation by lawmakers on Tuesday to re-open "gross human violation" cases, including the case of the 13 missing activists.