Human Rights and
The Implementation of Social
Justice
At Londa
Lima, East Sumba, May 13 – 15, 2016
When
we talk about Human Rights in a wide perspectives, the first thing to do is
understanding the definition of human rights itself. One expert on Human Rights,
Prof. Koentjoro Poerbo Pranoto said that human rights are fundamental rights,
the rights that owned by every human being according to the nature of God.
According
to Law, No. 39 / 1999 on Human Rights, refers to a set of rights attached to
human existence as a creature of God Almighty and is a gift that must be
respected, upheld and protected by the state, law, government and anyone as
form of honor and protection of human being. Based on Christian faith in
Genesis 1: 26-29, about man creation. Man was created in God's image, then
human rights are fundamental rights which inherent in human beings as a gift of
God.
Sumba,
a region in East Nusa Tenggara province, most of society still have primordial
system and tight social strata. Nothing wrong about it in this society, but it will
go wrong if the practices cause an imbalance in the implementation of human
rights for the lowest strata. This inequality should not happen, because the
majority of the people of Sumba are Christians, and referring to Galatians
3:28, which reads, "In this case there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither slave nor free, there is no male or female, for you are all one in
Christ Jesus ". So, the social strata between master and slave in Sumba is
not a fault, but each should complement on and another, not to ignore human
rights.
The
implementation of human rights is the concern and responsibility of all
stakeholders, the governments, NGOs, and community groups. Stube-HEMAT Sumba as
an institution which has attention to social issues, especially the
implementation of human rights is also called to find solution and respond the
implementation of human rights for people in Sumba through a training on Human
Rights, with a theme ‘Human Rights and The Implementation of Social Justice."
A
training which oriented to young people especially students and church youth
was held on Friday – Sunday, May 13–15, 2016 at Londa Lima, Waingapu, East
Sumba. It was attended by 30 participants from Unkriswina, STT Terpadu,
Waingapu, Academy Sandlewood of Sumba and several church youths in East Sumba.
As
the opening of training, Dominggus Umbu Deta, S.Th, the coordinator of
Stube-HEMAT Sumba, conveyed the importance of the implementation of human
rights as God’s universal sovereignty. God is sovereign over human beings and human
rights come from God. It means that violation against human rights is a
violation to God’s provision. There is no institution or a person, including
state authorities might cancel or reduce these rights, except God.
Next
session, Matthew Remi Jawa, SH, conveyed that public should be observers on
human rights issues, especially in Sumba. Public, especially participants were
advised not to violate human rights, because if this happens, it brings legal
consequences of such behavior.
The
implementation of children rights was also discussed in this training. Masnauli
Marbun, SE, MM, who shared about children rights shared that actually many
regulations have been issued by the government and could be used as references
to pay attention to children rights.
Stepanus
Makabombu, Kom, M.Si, talked about human rights and public policy. This session
highlighted the implementation of human rights done by government for the
society, in which everyone has rights to get access of information from local
government about their programs, as well as the funding.
The
participants enthusiastically responded every training materials. Those can can
be seen along the process, most of them were involved actively by responding,
asking questions and exchanging ideas with the speakers. One follow-up
activities of the training done by participant is having observation in his/her
neighborhood related to human rights violations. This project will be presented
in the next meeting. (DUD).
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