Haris Azhar is the Coordinator for KontraS (The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence). He has been working with KontraS, a national wide human rights NGO in Indonesia, since 1999 as a Volunteer for the Advocacy Division. He continued as a staff member of the Monitoring & Research Bureau, Head of Documentation Research Bureau, Head of Research, Investigation and Database Bureau, and became the Vice Coordinator of KontraS before becoming the Coordinator in 2010.