The Protection of Human Rights Defenders in the National Policy of Police Reforms in Indonesia

Abstract

This research is intended to find scientific arguments to ensure that Indonesia’s National Police reform agenda must be carried out with systematic efforts that can promote and protect human rights defenders. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method using conceptual, statutory, and historical approaches. Library sources as the primary data. This research collects data in the field of literature study, such as books, journals, and credible periodical reports. Finally, the problems are analyzed using the qualitative method. Police Bureaucratic Reform is the ideal patron of the National Police, which is carried out gradually and systematically. Through this instrument, human rights policing can provide certainty for promoting and protecting human rights to human rights defenders. The result of this research convinces and invites the government officers, parliament, NHRIs, and civil society, including human rights defenders, to openly and periodically monitor and evaluate the implementation of National Police bureaucratic reform.