The Concept of Constitutional Importance to Human Rights in Indonesia

Abstract

The United Nations published the so-called Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, after the end of World War II. The UDHR of 1948 was the world's response to a country that had insulted humanity around the world. Building a more peaceful world free from fear and oppression and unfair treatment. Therefore, Indonesia as a state of law, the guarantee of human rights protection is considered an absolute feature that must exist in every State so that norms regarding human rights guarantees have been contained in the Constitution or Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia Year 1945. Institutionally, the state does not have state institutions established under the Constitution to guarantee human rights. So that the implementation of human rights guarantees was formed an institution that protects human rights based on the Law, so that researchers identify a problem regarding legal arrangements in arranging policies related to human rights as an effort to provide constitutional rights to Indonesian citizens. The method used in this study is Normative Juridical. The conclusion of this study is that there are human rights listed in the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia Year 1945 some are listed in the Law but have the same quality of constitutional importance so that they have "Constitutional Importance".