A Human Rights Perspective in the Development of National Education System

National education serves to develop the ability and creates character and dignified nation civilization in order to educate the nation. In constitutional, the problem of education is regulated in Article 31 of the 1945 Constitution of the State of the Republic of Indonesia which is then elaborated into the legislation on National Education System. In a social perspective, education will create educated people who have an important role in the process of social change in society. In a cultural perspective, education is an important vehicle and effective for teaching norms, socializing values, and instilling ethos among citizens. In an economic perspective, education will produce reliable humans to be the subjects of national economic development. While, in a political perspective, education should be able to develop individual’s capacity to become good citizens, have awareness of rights and responsibilities in the life of society, nation, and state. Keywords: Basic Education, Human Rights, Legal Policy, National Education Syste

Legal Policy of Basic Education in National Education System

This article reviews the essence of education as a systematic process to improve the dignity of human beings holistically that enables the aspect of learner’ humanity can develop optimally. The formal education should be strategic for the effort to develop learner’ potential. As it turns out in practice, it has certain weaknesses, particularly in view of the accountability and legitimacy aspects of its establishment. The results show that education represents a constitutional right as guaranteed by the constitution. However, there must be a serious effort to improve the national education system as a product of legal policy and its implementation in basic education. In such efforts, it will obtain the quality of human resources of the children who are able to compete globally with the advanced nations in this world. In essence, the implementation strategy of education is a conscious and planned effort to create conducive learning system so that learners can actively develop their potential to have spiritual strength, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and skills needed for themselves, nation and state. The implementation of national education should be designed on the basis of paradigm, theories or concepts of learning that can provide perspectives on how to design effective learning theories. The national education system should be able to ensure equality in educational opportunities, quality improvement and relevance and efficiency in education management. Keywords: Constitutional Rights, Legal Policy, Local Government, National Education Syste

Potret of Basic Education in Indonesia (A Legal Political Study)

The national education system should be able to ensure equal distribution of educational opportunities, quality improvement and the relevance and efficiency of education management to face challenges in line with the changing demands of local, national, and global life so that education reforms are planned, directed and sustainable. The importance of education in addition to the intellectual life of the nation, to promote human rights in Indonesia, education is also an important tool to advance knowledge, and the dignity and dignity of the Indonesian nation. In addition to education as a right given under the constitution, education also becomes a given obligation by the state to its people. Therefore, it is necessary to have a legal politics that seeks to provide broad opportunities for the participation of the community to determine the desired style and content of the law, especially in the field of education, so that the future direction of Indonesian education can be better so that it directly affects the readiness of Indonesia to answer the global challenge. Keywords: Basic Education, Legal Political Study, Indonesi

ROLE OF THE JUDGE IN CREATING JUSTICE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Abstract The roles of the judges in creating justice has been social phenomenon in society. Public response arises not only because it is so principal but also because the people want and expect that judges at all levels of the courts are qualified and have high integrity and social sensitivity so that it can resolve the problems in the legal field. This paper attempts to unravel the main duties of the judges solving the cases. It concludes in order to meet the demands of justice, the paradigm, mindset and behavior of judges that have tended to weaken and humiliate the position and dignity of the judiciary need to be changed and developed. To realize the existence of the role of judges is determined by the performance, professionalism, idealism and adequate infrastructure to support the efforts of both internal and external approac