The Netherlands are set immortalize renowned Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib by naming a street in The Hague after him.

â??The Netherlands have a policy of immortalizing those dedicated to human rights,â? said Haris Azhar, the coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), as quoted by news portal Detik.com.

â??Munir had a link with the Netherlands because he had planned to study in Utrecht [before he was killed],â? Haris said.

Dutch rights activists have communicated with Kontras for years and finally they offered to establish Munirstraat, or Munir Street. The offer was announced during an event in The Hague attended by Munirâ??s wife, Suciwati.

â??Friends, please remember The Hagueâ??s promise, because Munirâ??s own country doesnâ??t appreciate what he did,â? she said, as quoted by news portal Vivanews.com.

Munir is the fourth Indonesian with a street named after them in the Netherlands, after the founding father and the first Indonesian vice president, Mohammad Hatta, pioneer Indonesian womenâ??s rights activist Raden Ajeng Kartini, and student Irawan Sujono.

Irawan was an Indonesian student studying in Leiden and the son of Raden Ario Adipati Sujono, the first Indonesian minister in the Dutch cabinet. On January 13, 1945 he was carrying a printing equipment to print underground movementâ??s publications about the war. He met with German Nazi officers on the street and was shot to death when he tried to rescue the printing equipment.