Legal Reconstruction of Government Responsibility in Mental Disorder Rehabilitation Based on the Dignified Justice Value

Abstract

One of the phenomena that indicate that there are still social problems today, among others, can be seen in the many people with mental disorders can cause suffering and obstacles in carrying out people's functions as human beings. This study aims to analyze the regulation of the Government's responsibility in the rehabilitation of people with mental disorders that have not been fair and dignified. This research method uses the legal positivism paradigm and the legal post-positivism paradigm with a sociological juridical approach to solving research problems. The results of the study indicate that there are weaknesses in terms of legal substance, legal structure, and legal culture related to the regulation of the Government's responsibility in the rehabilitation of people with mental disorders. Reconstruction of regulation on the Government's responsibility in the rehabilitation of people with mental disorders based on the value of dignified justice, namely by reconstructing Article 10, Article 18, and Article 25 of Law Number 18 of 2014 Concerning Mental Health.