Abstrak
Indonesia has just ratified the two most important international human rights covenants, namely, in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The implications of these ratifications are enormous, either for the government and other state's institutions or for the victims of human rights violation as well as human rights defenders. The two Covenants could become part of the effort of legal reform to improve human rights condition in Indonesia. the two Covenants are related with the history of the world organization, namely, the United Nations, in developing the what so called the international law, in this regard the international human rights law. The human rights law was developed as mechanisms, either Charter-based or Treaty-based. The main purposes of the Indonesian are to maintain peace and prevent violance.
