Implementation of Human Rights Friendly Principles in the District Government of Pakpak Bharat
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International Journal of Research and Review Vol.7; Issue: 2; February 2020 Website: www.ijrrjournal.com Research Paper E-ISSN: 2349-9788; P-ISSN: 2454-2237 Implementation of Human Rights Friendly Principles in the District Government of Pakpak Bharat Surya Nita Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitas Pembangunan Panca Budi, Medan, Indonesia, 20122 ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION The protection, advancement, The regional government must pay special enforcement, and fulfillment of human attention to respect, to protect, and to fulfill of rights are the responsibility of the State, human rights to all citizens in the area. In this especially the government. It is reflected in case, the quality of services provided by local article 28I subsection (1) CONSTITUTION governments to the extent that local governments respect human rights in practice. 1945, and article 8 of LAW number 39 year Regions that have formulated into Regional 1999. Article 71 and article 72 LAW No. 39 Regulations and carried out the principles of of 1999 reinforce the responsibility, that the Human Rights District, namely Wonosobo Government is obliged and responsible for Regency. The Regional Government of Pakpak respecting, protecting, enforcing, and Bharat Regency is a government that has promoting human rights governed by the planned for a Human Rights Friendly District ACT, other legislative regulations, and with the formulation of a Regional Reporting International Law on Human Rights Plan in 2018, but it has not yet been approved in received by the Republic of Indonesia. the provisions of the Regional Regulation. These obligations and responsibilities Based on the explanation above, the problem is include effective implementation measures formulated as follows: What is the arrangement of the principles of Human Rights Friendly in the areas of law, politics, economics, District?; How is the application of the principle social, cultural, state security defenses, and of Human Rights Friendly District in the other areas. Regional Government of Pakpak Bharat The conception of responsibility Regency?. The principle of Human Rights means that the State's obligation to human Friendly Districts is the responsibility of the rights is an obligation for every state and Regional Government in respecting human government institution, including local rights, protecting and fulfilling human rights for governments. The executive, judicial and every citizen, especially those in the regions. legislative as well as other State institutions The application of the Human Rights Friendly both at the central and regional level assume District Principle to the Pakpak Bharat District responsibility for the respect, protection and Government is still in the plan of the Human Rights District Regulation of the Pakpak Bharat fulfillment of human rights for all citizens. Government, but in its development the Pakpak This conception that laid the groundwork Bharat Regency Government has implemented for the local government to also carry out to fulfill of human rights as stated in Law No. responsibility for the rights that have been 39 of 1999 concerning Human Rights, human established and secured in the Indonesian rights. Constitution and various statutory regulations. Keywords: Application, Regional Government, The tasks of local government Friendly, Human Rights, Pakpak Bharat related human rights can be classified in three main categories: the task to respect, the task to protect and the task to fulfill. International Journal of Research and Review (ijrrjournal.com) 92 Vol.7; Issue: 2; February 2020 Surya Nita. Implementation of human rights friendly principles in the district government of pakpak bharat Duty to respect means district officials departs from the idea that, in order for should not violate human rights with their international human rights norms and actions. This task requires that local standards to be effective, all townspeople governments refrain from hindering the must understand and understand human rights and freedoms of all persons in their rights as a framework for sustainable jurisdiction. For example, in connection development in their communities. The with the freedom to obtain employment. concept was launched in 1997 by the The obligation to protect the demands of people's Movement for human Rights measures to ensure that third parties do not Education, a nonprofit international violate the rights and freedoms of organization engaged in service. This individuals. In order to carry out the concept was further developed, primarily as obligation to fulfill individual rights in order a normative concept, by the world human not to be discriminated, local human rights Rights Cities Forum which takes place mechanisms such as Ombudsman or special annually in the City of Gwangju (Republic anti-discrimination agencies may be of Korea). established. The Gwangju declaration on the Local governments should pay Human Rights city passed on 17 May 2011 particular attention to the protection and defines the city of human rights as a local promotion of the rights of vulnerable groups community or socio-political process in a and disadvantaged groups, such as disabled, local context where human rights play a key ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, role as Fundamental values and guiding victims of sexual discrimination, children principles. A human rights city requires a and seniors. In this regard, the quality of shared human rights governance in a local service provided by local governments to context, where regional governments, such groups "tests" the extent to which local regional parliaments (DPRD), civil society, governments respect human rights in private sector and other stakeholders work practice. The area that has formulated into together to improve the quality of Lives for the local regulation and is running the all people in the spirit of partnership based principle of human rights Regency, on human rights standards and norms. The Wonosobo regency. human rights approach to local governance The district government of Pakpak includes the principles of democracy, Bharat is a government that has planned the participation, responsible leadership, human rights district with the formulation of transparency, accountability, non- regulation regional design in the year 2018, discrimination, empowerment and legal but has not been ratified in the provisions of supremacy. The concept of the human rights local regulations. It was held a scientific city also emphasizes the importance of article with the title of the implementation ensuring broad participation of all actors of the human rights friendly Regency in the and stakeholders, especially the marginal Regency government of Pakpak Bharat. and vulnerable groups, and the importance of effective and independent human rights LITERATURE REVIEW protection as well as mechanisms The "Human Rights City" is one of monitoring involving everyone. This the initiatives developed globally with the concept recognizes the importance of aim of localizing human rights. This notion interregional and international cooperation is based on recognition of the city as a key and the solidarity of various cities involved player in the advancement and protection of in the advancement and protection of human human rights and generally refers to a city rights. The following factors can be referred whose government and population are to as the main reason that has led to the morally and legally governed by the emergence of "City of Human Rights": (a) principles of human rights. The initiative The shift from standard determination to International Journal of Research and Review (ijrrjournal.com) 93 Vol.7; Issue: 2; February 2020 Surya Nita. Implementation of human rights friendly principles in the district government of pakpak bharat implementation, especially at the level of the concept of "right over the city" has been governance, i.e. local government, which instituted on a limited basis, for example the becomes the place Best for realizing human Brazilian City Regulation (2001), the rights, especially economic and social Montreal Charter on Rights and rights; (b) Global tendencies, beginning in Responsibilities (2006) and the Mexico City the 1980, toward the decentralization of Charter for the right to the City (2010). The government power – in fact, over the last latter mentions six fundamental principles few decades most countries in the world that are indispensable for the promotion of bestowed important authorities into local the right to the city: (a) The full governments; (c) A change in global implementation of human rights within a demographics: In 2008, for the first time in city; (b) The social functions of the city, history, more than half of the world's land and property; (c) Democratic population lives in large and small cities, management of the city; (d) The production and this number is expected to rise to nearly of democratic cities and production in the 5 billion in the year 2030. city; (e) Ongoing management and The city has a unique potential for responsible for the public property (natural human empowerment and for social and heritage, culture and energy resources) environmental problem solving. At the same existing in the city and its surroundings; and time, the city faces important challenges in (f) a democratic and fair city evenly. the field of social cohesion. In the presence The rights to the city are specifically of people from different regions and stipulated in the World Charter for the rights backgrounds that are often