The urgency to incorporate the islamic concept of rights into the international human rights law course in indonesian law schools

Abstract

The discourse between International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and Islam has been a longstanding one. However*not all IHRL courses in Indonesia include Islamic human rights as one of the taught chapters. This normative research explores the urgency to include Islamic human rights in the IHRL curriculum and finds that it is indeed urgent to do so. There are two reasons found to include Islamic human rights in IHRL. First, it is a counter to the Eurocentric discourse of IHRL. Second, there are paradigmatic differences between IHRL and Islam which, if not understood, will make it difficult to fairly consider the discourse and analyze the derivative issues. There are two paradigmatic differences between IHRL and Islamic human rights, which are the epistemology and rights-obligation construction.