EDUCATION AS A HUMAN RIGHT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPULSORY EDUCATION PROGRAM AS AN EFFORT TO FULFILL THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION
Vera Waty Simanjuntak1,a), Dr. Waluyo, S.H., M.Si2,b)

1Faculty of Law, Sebelas Maret University
2Faculty of Law, Sebelas Maret University

Abstract

Education is the direction and determinant of the back and forth of a nation, because education is an
investment for the creation of quality Human Resources (HR). Through education, a person can easily
increase their potential so that they can improve their standard of living in a better direction. Various
efforts have been made by the Government to improve the quality and equity of education. One of the
efforts is to organize a compulsory education program that freezes education costs. This study aims to
determine the effectiveness of the compulsory education program through Government Regulation No.
47/2008 in fulfilling the right to education as a human right. The method used in this research is
normative legal research and in analyzing the data using the George C Edwards III 1980 policy
implementation theory by taking a sample from one of the regions in Indonesia, namely Bekasi City.
The results show that the effectiveness of the compulsory education program has not been implemented
properly, this is because the communication made to the community is still not optimal, the lack of
available resources, the implementation of tasks has not been maximized, and the support of the
bureaucratic structure is still not optimal. So that socialization, coaching and mentoring by the
government to the community are needed as well as increasing the amount of the education assistance
budget and the number of schools and conducting joint evaluations on a scale between the government
and the community to achieve the fulfillment of the right to education as part of human rights.

Keywords: Human Rights, Compulsory Education Program, Education.

Topic: Law