Jurnal Ilmiah Hukum LEGALITY
Vol. 29 No. 1 (2021): March

The adversity on establishing places of worship: has religious freedom failed in Indonesia?

Ridwan Arifin (Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia)
Hanif Helmi (Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia)
Ngaboawaji Daniel Nte (Department of Intelligence and Security Studies, Novena University, Nigeria)
Waspiah Waspiah (Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia)
Dian Latifiani (Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Feb 2021

Abstract

Religious freedom has various interpretations in practice, although the rule of law regulates this right. In many cases, freedom of religion is closely related to human rights and security studies, however, not infrequently, the cases intersect with political policies. This paper aims to analyze various cases regarding religious freedom in Indonesia concerning human rights. This paper examines various phenomena related to difficulties and establishing places of worship, especially for certain groups in Indonesia in various policies and legal regulations in Indonesia. The method used for this research is non-empirical research. All data dan information analyzed come up from various previous research. This paper found and underlined that debates on the relativity of human rights often lead to different perceptions in human rights standards. Various laws relating to communities of places of worship, in many cases and considered by many experts to violate the basic principles of human rights. This paper also emphasized that the fulfillment of human rights in Indonesia concerning religious freedom cannot be separated from historical, sociological, and cultural factors of the Indonesian people themselves.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

legality

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

Jurnal Ilmiah Hukum Legality (JIHL) is a peer-reviewed open access Journal to publish the manuscripts of high quality research as well as conceptual analysis that studies in any fields of Law, such as criminal law, private law, bussiness law, constitutional law, administrative law, international ...