PERAN UNHCR DALAM PELAKSANAAN PERLINDUNGAN PENGUNGSI DI INDONESIA SEBAGAI NEGARA BUKAN PESERTA KONVENSI STATUS PENGUNGSI 1951 (STUDI KASUS PADA RUMAH DETENSI IMIGRAN RIAU)

Even too Indonesia is not a party to the Geneva Convention 1951, but Indonesia has an obligation to protect refugees from customary international law. The implementation of the refugee protection is also given by the detention house in Riau. The legal problem in this research is the role of UNHCR in providing protection for the refugee whom are residing in detention house in Riau. The research methods used in this research is normative legal research. Normative legal research focus on the positive legal norms in the form of international legal intruments relating to the cases in this research. The search for provisions of international law such as the Geneva Convention in 1951, The Protocol Of New York In 1967 and the statute of UNHCR. Based on this research to the conclusion is the UNHCR has been fulfilling its role in protection of refugees in Indonesia. The existence of the role of UNHCR for the refugees in Indonesia is to screen in and to screen out, where the refugees were registered by UNHCR to set the status of a refugee or not. The role of the UNHCR to find a third party for refugees. The government of Indonesia help the refugees with various policies, such as a providing shelter, funds, and others. Although Indonesia has not acceded to the Geneva Convention in 1951 and The Protocol of New york in 1967, but Indonesia has been implementing the principle of Non Refoulment, thus indirectly Indonesia also applied customary international law