Reconstructing Clean Water Policy Based on the Perspective of Idea Law of Pancasila the Indonesia’s Principles (original) (raw)
2019, Proceedings of the Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2018)
The purposes of the research are to create a clean water policy formulation or model which is based on justice for future generations and to reconstruct the clean water management policy which is currently oriented to economic interests, not the public interest. Water is a basic human need and cannot be substituted, it is a requirements of an adequate health living standard of all humans. The decrease of water amount bring problem in fulfilling the right to water of humans. In Indonesia, the State should manage its availability and the accessibility forever for the prosperity of Indonesian people as stated in Article 33 of Indonesian Constitution year 1945. But it became worst because The Law Number 7 year 2004 gave possibility to privatisation of water management, so that the water is not social good only anymore, it is an economic good either, the law itself is influenced by Dublin Declaration in seeing water as economic good. Even though the Law has been revoked by The Constitutional Court, in which the water management and control returned to the Government. But there are still problems in fulfilling the right to water of people, through this study we found that the Government have obligation to guarantee the availability and the accessibility to water of the citizen, as a God's gift, people have to manage water for humans life, and The right to water in the ideal law of Pancasila is the spirit to organize everything rightly, fairly, and bring good value for Indonesia. Keywords-Pancasila; clean water; human rights I. INTRODUCTION Water in the history of human life has a central position and is a guarantee of the survival of human life on earth. According to Sayyid, water is the basis of a life as Sayyid Quthb said, Allah create it [1]. As a gift of the Creator, water should be utilized and preserved by human being for the sake of human survival itself. So the management, the governance and the ownership of water sources should be endeavored together [2]. Water covers 70 percent of the earth's surface and it is around 1.4 thousand million km3. However, only a small portion of this amount is actually utilized, it's about 0.003 %.