Indonesian AIDS commission has rejected a plan by the lawmakers of Papua province which requires microchips to be implanted in  HIV/ AIDS patients to monitor the spread of disease.  

It is expected that the bill would be passed on a majority vote and would implemented in January 2009. The implicit reason behind the bill is to track sexually active people who have HIV/AIDS who could be prosecuted if they are suspected of infecting others. According to lawmakers, the proposed bill would also give a permission to the authorities to identify and ultimately punish "sexually aggressive,” HIV-positive individuals.

"This misguided and abusive plan is an offense to everyone - living with HIV or not," said Joseph Amon, director of the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. "Being infected with HIV should not be a crime, and requiring people living with HIV to be implanted with microchips violates the rights to privacy and dignity in the most fundamental way."

Nafsiah Mboi, chairperson of the National AIDS Control Commission has said that they have rejected such a plan as it clearly violates human rights. Moreover it seems to be a plan that is impractical and impossible to be implemented. She expressed hope that local lawmakers in Papua would reconsider the implementation of the law as it was not in line with human rights. She urged the Papuan lawmakers to conduct public hearings before the bill is passed.

If Bill is cleared it would mean  that anyone found guilty by a court of law of deliberately spreading the virus could be fined up to 50 million rupiah (4,100 dollars) or given six months in jail.