Overview of Covid-19 Vaccination Obligations within the Human Rights Framework in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211102.197How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Vaccination; Covid 19; Human Rights Restriction

Abstract

Vaccination obligations become a policy that is widely taken by countries in the world as an effort to minimize the rate of development of pandemic diseases including COVID 19, Indonesia requires vaccination as a way to control pandemics even though the movement of the rejection of vaccination at the beginning rolled out this policy is quite massive and done openly not to receive vaccination with various considerations and campaign openly about this rejection, The government’s reaction at the beginning of the wave of vaccination refusal as the contents of article 93 of Law No. 6 of 2018 then the vaccine repellent will be sentenced to imprisonment and fines for violating health quarantine so that if anyone obstructs and does not comply with the implementation of health quarantine is threatened with a 1-year criminal or a fine of 100 Million This Study Is Applied normative legal research method to analyzed two keys issues: how to review mandatory vaccination policies within the framework of human rights, and how to limit human rights fulfillment in the Covid 19 pandemic, as part of the temporary result of the research In terms of mandatory vaccination implementation policies as a form of Restriction or reduction of freedom to exercise human rights for the community, especially to determine the best thing for public health Siracusa Principles open a special restriction space related to this where the State can take Measures specifically aimed at preventing illness or injury or providing care for those who are sick and injured and if later developed into emergencies are required to threaten the life of the nation affecting the entire population and whether all or part of the territory of the country, and threaten the physical integrity of the population, political independence or territorial integrity of the state or the basic functioning of the institution. And emergencies cannot diminish the right to life, the right to be free from torture, cruel or degrading treatment or punishment, and free from medical or scientific experiments without free consent, the provisions of restrictions based on the interests of public health should be based on scientific evidence and not arbitrarily designed or imposed i.e. in an unreasonable or discriminatory manner.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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