HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONTEXT OF THE HISTORICAL NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES’ DEBATES ON UNIVERSALISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM, AND CURRENT HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA

Authors

Satya Arinanto, Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia

Abstract

Human rights issue was born as a result from Nazi Era by the occurrence of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Human rights are meant to be universal by definition. The non-aligned countries generally consider human rights as western concept. The writer in this article is questioned whether or not other cultures have a concept of human rights. If they have a certain concept of human rights, the next question is whether or not it resembles that of the Universal Declaration. The writer finds it still difficult to build a bridge between universality and relativity of human rights concepts. Finally, the writer concludes that cultural relativity is real and an undeniable fact.

Recommended Citation

Arinanto, Satya (2021) "HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONTEXT OF THE HISTORICAL NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES’ DEBATES ON UNIVERSALISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM, AND CURRENT HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA," Indonesian Journal of International Law: Vol. 7: No. 3, Article 1.
DOI: 10.17304/ijil.vol7.3.238
Available at: https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/ijil/vol7/iss3/1