Tag Archives: Social Rights

The Role of the Constitutional Court in Protecting Economic and Social Rights in Indonesia

Posted on by
Reply

THE ROLE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN PROTECTING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS IN INDONESIA

I D.G. Palguna, Saldi Isra and Pan Mohamad Faiz

Abstract

One of the important elements of a constitutional democratic state is the guarantee of human rights protection for its citizens. As a constitutional democratic state, Indonesia has adopted various human rights provisions from international covenants, following the amendment of the Indonesian Constitution. However, such guarantees do not necessarily mean that human rights will definitely be respected, particularly those concerning economic and social rights. Given this situation, the judicial review mechanism of the Constitutional Court is often used by citizens to uphold their rights. This article analyzes the Constitutional Court’s role in protecting citizens’ economic and social rights enshrined in the Indonesian Constitution. It concludes that economic and social rights can be judicially enforced through Constitutional Court decisions in a diverse array of cases, such as electricity, oil and natural gas, water resources, national social security, the education budget, pension payments, and marriageable age.

Keywords: Constitutional Court, Economic Rights, Social Rights, Judicial Review, Indonesia.

Citation:  Palguna, I D.G., Isra, S., & Faiz, P.M. (2021). The role of the constitutional court in protecting economic and social rights in Indonesia. Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, 24(S5), 1-16

Download: here.

The Indonesian Constitutional Court Decisions as a Social Engineer in Improving People’s Welfare

Posted on by
1

INDONESIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECISIONS AS A SOCIAL ENGINEER IN IMPROVING PEOPLE’S WELFARE

(Paper published in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations (ICRI, 2018), pages 165-170)

Abstract

One of the national goals of the establishment of the Indonesian state is to improve the people’s welfare. To support this achievement, the law comes to bring its functions as a social engineer. It means the law plays a role in influencing the occurrence of a social change in a planned manner to achieve prosperity. The Constitutional Court decision is one of the sources of law that is expected to improve people’s welfare. This article aims to analyze the Constitutional Court decisions that have significant implications for maintaining and improving the people’s welfare in Indonesia. The methodology used in this research is a normative juridical with library research and case study approaches on decisions declared by the Constitutional Court in the last five years (2013-2018). This study found that there are socioeconomic rights of citizens that have been protected and restored by the Constitutional Court. These erga omnes decisions indirectly contributed to the improvement of the people’s welfare, in particular regarding the rights of a pension fund, a minimum wage and severance pay. This article concludes that an effort to maintain and improve the people’s welfare in Indonesia can also be enforced effectively through a social engineering based on the Constitutional Court decisions.

Keywords: Constitutional Court, People’s Welfare, Social Engineering, Socio-Economic RIghts

* Read more or download the paper here.