Jokowi: Civil And Socio-cultural Rights Must Be Balanced

President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Photo: Setkab)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) asked all parties to play a role in efforts to equalize human rights justice for all people in Indonesia, from civil rights to socio-cultural rights.

Moreover, currently the government's commitment to upholding human rights has been stated in the 2020-2025 National Human Rights Action Plan.

"Civil rights, political rights as well as economic and social and cultural rights must be protected in a balanced manner and none of them are neglected," Jokowi said in commemorating World Human Rights Day 2020 online which was broadcast on YouTube, Thursday, December 10.

Even though Indonesia is facing a serious problem, namely the COVID-19 pandemic, this should not be an excuse for the government to reduce efforts to fulfill people's human rights.

This, continued the former Governor of DKI Jakarta, can be seen from the government's efforts to ensure that the community does not experience such a severe impact due to the pandemic. Fulfillment of health facilities to providing assistance is something that continues to be pursued so that community rights can be fulfilled.

"We continue to work hard to prevent the spread of the virus, treat the sick, prevent death, and provide economic assistance to poor people and MSMEs. We must keep the pandemic from worsening the fulfillment of people's human rights," he said.

Furthermore, Jokowi also touched on infrastructure development. He said, this effort is one way for the government to fulfill people's human rights.

So that in the future, he hopes that evenly distributed infrastructure development in each region can bring equality in the regions.

"We must also dedicate infrastructure development as infrastructure for the fulfillment of human rights by ensuring affordability of mobility rights, health rights, food rights and equal basic needs including one price fuel," he said.

With these efforts, he then hopes for the protection and fulfillment of human rights for all Indonesian people without exception. "Let us all play an active role in respecting the rights of other parties and be responsible for the fulfillment of the rights of other parties," he said.

"By increasing respect for the protection and fulfillment of human rights, we will become a more civilized, resilient and advanced nation," he concluded.