In view of:
e.
now, therefore, upon consideration of paragraphs a, b, and c,
and to implement Decree of the People’s Legislative Assembly
of the Republic of Indonesia Number XVII/MPR/1998 concerning
Human Rights, it is considered necessary to enact provisions in
an Act concerning Human Rights;
1.
Article 5 clause (1), Article 20 clause (1), Article 27 clause (1)
and clause (2), Article 28, Article 29 clause (1) and clause (2),
Article 30, and Article 31, Article 32, Article 333 clause (1) and
clause (3), and Article 34 of the 1945 Constitution;
2.
Decree of the People’s Legislative Assembly of the Republic of
Indonesia No. XVII/MPR/1998 concerning Human Rights;
with approval of
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE REPULIC OF INDONESIA
DECREES
To enact:
ACT CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
The terms used in this Act have the following meanings:
1. Human rights mean a set of rights bestowed by God Almighty in the essence and
being of humans as creations of God which must be respected, held in the
highest esteem and protected by the state, law, Government, and all people in
order to protect human dignity and worth.
2. Human obligations mean a set of obligations which, if not undertaken, would
make it impossible for human rights to be executed and upheld.
3. Discrimination means all limitations, affronts or ostracism, both direct and
indirect, on grounds of differences in religion, ethnicity, race, group, faction, social
status, economic status, sex, language, or political belief, that results in the
degradation, aberration, or eradication of recognition, execution, or application of