The Impact Of Human Rights In PT. Freeport Indonesia

Introduction

Human rights are the rights in which all the human beings are entitled by virtue of their being as a human (Manchester University Press, 2001). The concept of the human rights itself is an abstract. However, when it is applied, it has the direct and enormous impact on the daily life of the people in the world. How the human rights applied in the broader circumstance is really having a long journey. Until in 1945, after the World War II, the United Nations (UN) was established as one of the effort to uphold the human rights to encourage the governments in promoting and guarding the human rights. Human rights are a central element of international law and also the UN Charter’s broad approach for the international peace and security

The results of the investigation and monitoring by the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) declared that PT. Freeport Indonesia has violated the human rights in the incident of the collapsing of the Big Gossan tunnel on May, 2013 (Voice of America, 2014). According to the National Commission on Human Rights, PT. Freeport Indonesia allegedly been doing omissions and errors that result in the loss of 28 workers’s live. As the result, the National Comission will sue the parties that responsible in PT. Freeport Indonesia in related with this case, especially the head of the mining engineering, the operations supervisor and the technical manager. The National Commission will also submit a report on the results of the monitoring and investigations of this case to Freeport America through the US Embassy in Jakarta. The other pathetic thing is that according to the National Commission, the Indonesian government seems like did not really assertive in dealing with the case that has killed 28 of Indonesian citizens. This is one of the weaknesses for the government that paid a little attention to the integration of human rights to its trade policies. As the consequence, the case that had been occurred in last two years still did not get any legal

It also can be described as an important integration between human rights in international law and the public advocacy for human rights that can lead to the progressive development and implementation of human rights norms and standards (Ibrahim, 2014). The human rights diplomacy is a tool that used by the diplomats to advance current national interests as well as to confront the long-standing geopolitical and economic conflict. It offers a unique opportunity to the human rights aspect in the wide-ranging area of diplomatic engagement. This is very important for a nation to integrate the human rights to its state diplomacy. Human rights diplomacy is the utilisation of diplomatic negotiation and persuasion for the specific purpose of promoting and protecting human rights of a nation. Diplomacy could be done by the diplomat in the range of global issues that may affect the life of the citizens and also to secure the freedom and the opportunity of the people (Manurung, 2015). Moreover, through the diplomacy, a state could obtain the power to exercise its foreign policy that has the goal to promote the democracy and the protection on human rights to the world. To achieve that goal, a state needs to utilize four main tools of foreign policy includes the treaty, ambassador, foreign aid,