Political Right and Liberty: Analysis Base on Buddhist Approaches

Abstract

The objectives of this research paper are 1) to analyze and analyze political rights and liberties based on general concepts; 2) to analyze political rights and liberties according to Buddhist philosophy. The conduct of this research was a qualitative research. By analyzing the data obtained from the study of documents on political rights and liberties, analyzed by Buddhist principles appearing in the scriptures of the Tripitaka, commentary, Buddhist literature as well as analyze the data obtained from in-depth interviews. The results showed that General concepts of political rights and freedoms it consists of statutory laws that are enacted by the competent authority of the State to enforce a person's compliance. To regulate the relationship between persons or between persons and the state and political rights and liberties according to Buddhism, consisting of the Buddha as morality according to religious provisions in the form of culture, morality, and tradition, namely morality, concentration, wisdom, vimutti, and vimuttinanadassana. According to the Buddhist Dharma line, peace is peace and tranquility for the administration of the country. Justice is the impartiality, righteousness and reasonableness of a person or person to the state.