<![CDATA[While writers use literature to represent human rights issues, scholars study how literature highlights its significance for rights advocacy. To address the issue, this study investigates how the novel Sukreni Gadis Bali explores human rights themes through names and gender identity. Applying a qualitative approach, this article analyzes the novel as the material object where the primary data are sourced. Secondary documentation was used to support the study through the perspectives of onomastics and human rights concepts. The research draws on anthroponymy to examine the themes related to personal names in the narrative. Through this perspective, the research investigates personal names within the novel and looks at their potential to expose human rights issues. Findings show that in Sukreni Gadis Bali, Balinese characters are given names with socio-political roles, such as Ni, I, Pan, Men, and I Gusti, to criticize rights violations experienced by women on the island. Through the naming, it criticizes the denial of fundamental human rights to Balinese women, particularly the right to identity, self-respect, protection from discrimination, and the right to a name, as outlined in international human rights instruments such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Although the study is limited in terms of data, methodology, and theoretical scope, it demonstrates the novel’s effectiveness in representing human rights concerns. While this study practically contributes to the exposure of Balinese naming issues, it academically adds to the discussion of anthroponastics. These findings can contribute to examining other works by Pandji Tisna, exploring literature by his contemporaries, or analyzing similar themes in different cultural contexts using diverse human rights frameworks to identify broader patterns and motifs in literary representations of rights.]]>
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