PUBLIC SPACE PARTICIPATION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN DISCOURSE PERSPECTIVE JÜRGEN HABERMAS

This writing aims to analyze the background of the public sphere's participation in resolving cases of gross human rights violations by using the public sphere discourse of Jurgen Habermas. The method used in writing is a normative juridical approach. The point is that this research focuses more on literature studies and news studies, documentary studies on the provisions of laws and regulations. The results of this paper show that the factors that cause serious human rights cases cannot be legally resolved because of the very dominant political element in the settlement, such as this serious human rights case will be used as an advantage for practical political interests five years, and also the average perpetrators of gross human rights violations are currently an important element in the current Indonesian government. In this case, the element of public space should play an important role in resolving these gross human rights violations, in the theory of public space discus according to Jurgen Habermas, so that social problems such as legal problems can be resolved intersubjectively between the system and the public sphere, and the results obtained through consensus can be accepted. Intersubjectively without putting aside each opinion, Habermas proposes his concept of communicative discourse as a discourse that must be tested first in a communicative ratio. In the settlement of serious human rights cases, it is still possible to be resolved legally by involving the public sphere, because according to Habermas every social problem such as law can be resolved through communicative action. KEYWORDS: Communicative Ratio, Law, Serious Human Rights Cases, Public Spac