Perlindungan Hukum Pencari Suaka dan Pengungsi di Indonesia

Abstract

Security approach applied in the Indonesian government to protect the citizens of the various impacts of the increasing number of asylum seekers and refugees currently embodied by political attitudes that are not yet part of the countries that ratified the 1951 convention and 1967 protocol on the status of refugees. Problem then arises when the government had to deal with asylum seekers and refugees where until now there is a void in the positive law related to handling of asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia. Formulation of the problem in this research is how the legal protection of asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia, how the responsibility and role of the state in the handling of asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia and how constraints. The scope of the research was limited in immigration detention house Medan, especially in some segments associated with legal protection against the presence of asylum seekers and refugees in immigration detention house Medan. This type of research is empirical legal research with the goal of primary data sourced directly from the field, supported by secondary data. Indonesia has a lawful obligation to provide legal protection as a consequence of the state of law even though the state does not absolutely have to accept the existence of refugees if it is associated with the principle of the sovereignty of the state owned. The principle of legal protection given those derived from the concept of the recognition and protection of human rights. The recognition of human dignity makes Indonesia is obliged to provide legal protection for the public good of its citizens and the international community.