Hanin Marwah, Jakarta – SETARA Institute has released the 2025 Human Rights Index for Indonesia to commemorate this year's World Human Rights Day. SETARA noted a decline in scores compared to the previous year.
The Executive Director of SETARA Institute, Halili Hasan, said the average score for all variables in the 2025 Human Rights Index is 3.0 on a 1-7 scale. This marks a 0.1 decrease compared to 2024.
"Meaning, there is a factual indication that we have experienced a regression in human rights development in Indonesia," said Halili during the launch of the Human Rights Index in Jakarta on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. "This should serve as a wake-up call for the current administration."
The Indonesian human rights index also slipped in 2024, falling 0.1 point from 2023 scores.
Halili conveyed that the annual release of the Human Rights Index is part of the effort to encourage a reorientation of human rights in Indonesia. The index is expected to serve as a record to stop the downward trend from continuing. "Including, for example, improving regulations, preventing incidents, and adhering to the principles of non-repetition in human rights," he said.
The SETARA Institute Human Rights Index is a study that measures state performance as the duty-bearer in protecting, advancing, enforcing, and fulfilling human rights in Indonesia.
The Human Rights Index is compiled with reference to the cluster of rights stipulated in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. This Human Rights Index establishes 6 indicators for civil and political rights variables and 5 indicators for economic, social, and cultural rights (ecosoc) variables.
The national average score for the Ecosoc rights this year reached 3.2. Meanwhile, the average score for the civil and political rights variables is 2.8.
The right to life score slipped to 3.1 after scoring 3.3 for the past two years. The decline also occurred for the right to security to 3.2, the same score for the freedom of religion and belief.
On the same occasion, a legal researcher at SETARA Institute, Sayyidatul Insiyah, mentioned that the freedom of expression and opinion indicator is the lowest among 11 other indicators. This indicator has been continuously regressing for the past two years, with a score of 1.3 in 2023, 1.1 in 2024, and a score of 1.0 this year.
The right to justice also experienced a setback, with a score of 3.1 from 3.2 last year. Meanwhile, the score for the indicator of participation in governance stagnated at 3.0.
For the Ecosoc rights variables, the highest indicator is for the right to education, which is posted at 4.3, the same as last year.
The right to land indicator has been regressing for the past two years, from 1.9 in 2023 to 1.8 in 2024, and 1.6 this year. A decrease also occurred for the right to health indicator from 3.7 last year to 3.6 this year.
The score for the right to employment also decreased from 3.5 in 2023 and 2024 to 3.4 this year. Similarly, the right to culture also experienced a decrease from 3.3 last year to 3.2 this year.