Less than one month after President Jokowi expressed his acknowledgment and regret for 12 gross human rights violations in Indonesia. On January 11, 2023, there were at least two events that were the opposite of what was expected. Hope for survivors, families of victims and the public in general to feel safe from the potential repetition of serious crimes against human rights – as stated in Presidential Decree No. 17/2022 concerning the establishment of a Team for the Non-Judicial Resolution of Past Serious Human Rights Violations. The two events in question were intimidation of survivors of the Simpang Kertas Kraft Aceh Incident (Simpang KKA) and the hacking of the WhatsApp accounts of at least five activists from the Kamisan Action in Medan on 8-9 February 2023 and banning the Kamisan Action from 9 February 2023 on the grounds that the President was coming to commemorate National Day. National Press in the capital of North Sumatra Province.

On 7 February 2023, a survivor of the KKA Simpang Incident felt intimidation by a number of parties from the local police and military. Apart from being called numerous times to request data on the victims of the KKA Simpang Incident, a group of people suspected of being members of the Lhokseumawe Police and the Dewantara Police came to his house and asked him and other victims of the KKA Simpang Incident not to demonstrate and carry attributes that were "against" when President Joko Widodo visited Aceh to inaugurate a fertilizer factory on 10 February 2023. The next day, 8 February 2023 a group of people suspected of being Babinsa came to his house and said that they did this because they were ordered by their superiors. This of course does not show the professionalism of the Indonesian police and army, if it cannot be further said as thuggery. In the context of resolving serious crimes against human rights, the parties authorized to obtain information within the framework of investigations, investigations and preparations for court proceedings are Komnas HAM and the Attorney General's Office, not the police and military. Apart from that, such actions also have the potential to re-traumatize the survivors and the victims' families who have deep trauma from the activities of the apparatus during the implementation of the Military Operations Area and Martial Law on Bumi Rencong.

This intimidation should be considered as continued insensitivity, considering that since mid-2022, the Province of Aceh has been led by an Acting Governor who has a military career background, namely Major General TNI (Purn.) Achmad Marzuki. Evaluation and correction of officials involved in a number of serious crimes against human rights in Aceh that have not been held because there is no Human Rights Court is also a valid factor for survivors' concerns about intimidation by security forces.

The second incident of intimidation occurred on 8-9 February 2023. President Jokowi's working visit which took place on Thursday, 9 February 2023 coincided with the day of the Medan Kamisan Action. Human rights activists and citizens who used their rights to peacefully assemble and express their opinions were terrorized and silenced. The mass of the Kamisan Action, which numbered only a dozen people, was surrounded by hundreds of police who were on guard, experienced intimidation and the props for the action were taken by force. The identity of the party who contacted the North Sumatra Regional Police also showed excessive and unnecessary effort so that it was clear that the wrong step of restriction on the implementation of the Medan Kamisan Action was clearly visible.

The pattern of human rights violations in the two incidents above can be seen related to President Jokowi's planned visit to a number of places. Intimidation and repression of freedom of expression and opinion actually occurred in the locations that President Jokowi would visit.

Even though there were no direct instructions from President Jokowi, the existence of a "superior order" in the two incidents above is a form of wrong action by the TNI and POLRI. Even though the PPHAM Team's recommendation that Jokowi himself had accepted had mentioned TNI and POLRI reforms both structurally and culturally. The methods of intimidation using the Police and the TNI are New Order styles which no longer have a place in Reformation. President Jokowi and his staff must pay attention to this fact in order to ensure that gross human rights violations do not recur for the people of Indonesia.