Lentera Hukum, 10:1 (2023), pp. i-viii ISSN 2355-4673 (Print) 2621-3710 (Online) Available online 29 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.19184/ejlh.v10i1.38435 * Corresponding author, email: muhd.bahrul@unej.ac.id Published by the University of Jember. © The Author(s), 2023. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). Editorial Navigating Human Rights in Indonesia and Beyond Muhammad Bahrul Ulum* Faculty of Law, University of Jember, Indonesia Ari Wirya Dinata Faculty of Law, Bengkulu University, Indonesia I. OVERVIEW In Indonesia, promoting human rights is a long battle run. Human rights were just formally recognised when Suharto's authoritarian regime ended in 1998, but these rights have experienced a rise and fall throughout the Reformasi. Indonesia successfully amended the 1945 Constitution by incorporating more human rights provisions and enacted Human Rights Law 39/1999. However, this country still faces the challenges of ensuring that human rights are promoted with the state’s obligation to respect, protect and fulfil amidst the debates on institutional reforms, universalism and relativism, 1 as well as the limited powers of the national human rights institution. 2 Along with efforts to ensure that democracy and human rights can coexist, democratisation in Indonesia is also inextricably linked to advancing human rights. After two decades of Indonesia's reform, human rights and democracy have become vital cornerstones, but they have experienced serious challenges in their promotion. 1 Heru Susetyo, “Human Rights Regime between Universality and Cultural Relativism: The Asian and Indonesian Experience Culture & International Law II” (2018) 16:2 Indonesian J Int’l L 191–209 at 195. 2 Melissa Crouch, “Asian Legal Transplants and Rule of Law Reform: National Human Rights Commission in Myanmar and Indonesia” (2013) 5:2 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 146–177 at 165.