'Basic rights education starts in the family'

People talk about human rights, but many are still unsure what the issue is all about. The Jakarta Post asked some people which of their basic rights they felt were least protected.

Titi, lives in Muara Baru, North Jakarta with her husband and five children. The Jakarta administration plans to evict the family this month:

I don't have a school certificate so I don't understand much about human rights. But I think the policy on eviction violates human rights, although I cannot do anything to resist it.

I just hope the administration will give us adequate compensation, enough for us to go on and make a living in a new place.

Luky Setyaka, 25, is a wait staff at a Japanese fast-food restaurant in Central Jakarta. He lives with his family in Bekasi:

What are human rights? That's a simple question but not easy to answer.

It is much easier for me to say that the protection of human rights here is very poor. We even hear of human rights abuses taking place within the smallest social unit; the family.

Let's take the basic right of expression. Our parents keep telling us to obey what our elders say as they are more experienced. They neglect the young who want to express their minds.

It's necessary to educate people on human rights starting within the family. There's nothing to lose if we try it in our own family, right?

--The Jakarta Post