SUBYEK HUKUM INTERNASIONAL

Cekli Setya Pratiwi, SH. (UB),LL.M.(Utrecht)Email: c.s.pratiwi@gmail.com

Homepage: http://ceklipratiwi.staff.umm.ac.id

Tujuan Instruksional Khusus

Dalam Bab ini mahasiswa diharapkan mampu memahami dan menjelaskan:

• Definisi dari subyek hukum internasional• Karakteristik dari international personality• Hubungan antara subyek hukum internasional dengan

international personality• “Negara” sebagai subyek HI yang utama

Diskusi

• Apakah definisi dari subyek hukum internasional?

• Bagaimanakah karakteristik dari international personality?

• Apakah hubungan antara subyek hukum internasional dengan international personality?

• Apakah “negara” adalah satu-satunya subyek Hukum Internasional?

Definisi Subyek Hukum Internasional

• Subject of International Law is an entity capable of possesing international rights and duties and having the capacity to maintain its rights by bringing international claims. (ICJ, 1949).

What is the meaning of having capacity to maintain its rights?

1. Capacity to make claims in respect of breaches of international law

2. Capacity to make treaties and aggreements valid on international plane

3. The enjoyment of immunities and privileges from national jurisdiction

• Pemegang hak dan kewajiban langsung berdasarkan hukum internasional;

• Entitas yang memenuhi syarat diatas selanjutnya disebut memiliki “international legal personalities”;

• Entitas yang tidak memenuhi unsur diatas disebut sebagai “obyek” dari hukum internasional

Mochtar Kusumaadmaja

Subyek hukum internasional dibagi 2 :1. Penuh: pemegang seluruh hak dan kewajiban menurut hukum internasional, yaitu NEGARA;2. Terbatas: pemegang hak dan kewajiban

dalam hukum internasional secara terbatas;

Negara sebagai subyek hukum internasional penuh:

1.Aturan hukum internasional sebagian besar mengatur hak dan kewajiban negara/hubungan antar negara;

2.Hanya negara yang dapat berperkara di hadapan Mahkamah Internasional (Pasal 34 Statuta MI);

3.Hanya negara yang dapat mengesahkan berlakunya suatu aturan hukum;

4.Negara mempunyai force, power, authority;

J.G.Starke

Subyek hukum internasional dikelompokkanmenjadi 3:1. Negara-negara;2. Organisasi dan lembaga internasional;3. Individu dan kesatuan lain selain negara;

Kriteria kesatuan lain selain negara :

1. Diakui oleh negara-negara dalam praktek, mempunyai perwakilan di PBB, hanya untuk hal-hal tertentu, tidak mempunyai hak suara;

2. Dapat dilihat dari Konvensi-konvensi atau Perjanjian internasional secara umum;

Bour MaunaSubyek HI• Sebelum Perang Dunia II: Negara• Setelah Perang Dunia II:

1. Negara;2. Organisasi internasional;3. Individu;4. Vatikan;5. Palang Merah Internasional (ICRC);6. Belligerent;

1. National Law: legal personality, legal person, subject of the law.

2. The concepts of international personality

Legal personality and subjects of the law

Legal personality is primarily an ‘Legal acknowledgement that an entity is capable of exercising certain rights and being subject to certain duties under a particular system of law.

Subjects of the law are the persons to whom the law attributes rights and duties. Therefore, the term ‘subject of the law’ is synonymous with the term ‘legal person’.

Karakteristik Subyek Hukum Internasional

An entity has international personality if it has rights and duties under international law. The following are generally accepted as characteristics of international personality: (1) Rights and obligations under international law;(2) Treaty-making capacity;(3) Capacity to make international claims; and(4) The enjoyment of privileges and immunities from

national jurisdictions.

These are also known as ‘indicia of international personality’. In practice, it is only States and certain international organizations like the United Nations that have all of these capacities to the fullest degree.

“Subjects of international law” are those who possess “international personality”.

Apakah “Negara” sebagai satu-satunya subyek HI?

In the 19th century, States were the only subjects of international law.

Oppenheim emphatically stated: “Since the law of nations is based on the common consent of States, and not of individual human beings, States solely and exclusively are subjects of international law”. HOWEVER:

In the present day, it is not true.

While States remain the predominant actors in international law, the position has changed.

After the Second World War, new actors have emerged on the international plane, such as public international organizations established by States (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) created by individuals, multinational corporations and even individual human beings. They are now recognized as possessing some, although limited, international personality.

NEGARA (a State)

Professor Oppenheim defines ‘State’ in these

terms: “A State is in existence when the people is settled in a country under its own sovereign government.

Syarat-syarat konstitutif Negara menurut Oppenheim’s

Oppenheim’ sense:(1)People: who live together as a community in spite of

the fact that they may belong to different races or religions, or of different colours

(2)Country : there must be a country in which the people have settled down.

(3)Government (4)Sovereignty: ‘Sovereignty’ means the supreme

authority above which there is no other higher authority. Sovereignty denotes ‘independence’ all round within and without the boundary of a state.

Criteria of statehood underinternational law

Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States 1933 provides as follows: The State as a person of international law should posses the following qualifications:

1. A permanent population;2. A defined territory (stable political community

and this must be control of a certain area);3. Government; and4. Capacity to enter into relations with other

States.

(1) Defined Territory

For a State to exist, there must be a defined territory. The control of territory is the essence of a State.

This is the basis of the central notion of establishing the ‘territorial sovereignty’, exclusive competence of the State to exercise sovereign authority within that territory.

But absolute certainty about a State’s boundaries is not required; many states have out-standing frontier disputes.

(2) Permanent population

• There must be people linked to a specific territory on a more or less permanent basis and who can be regarded as its inhabitants. Wandering tribes do not qualify to be a State.

• In the Western Sahara case (1975) ICJ Rep. 12, the territory of the Western Sahara is populated by nomadic tribes who go freely across the the territory is such that they may be regarded as its ‘population’.

(3) Government

• To be a State there must be a government. The government must be ‘effective’ within the defined territory and exercise control over the permanent population. The mere existence of a government in itself does not suffice, if it does not have ‘effective control’.

Aaland Island Case

• The main question in this case was the date on which Finland became a state. Finland had been a part of the Russian Empire until the Russian Revolution. The Finnish Parliament declared Finland’s independence on December 4, 1917. But there was opposition within Finland by those who rejected the idea of independence. As a result, violence broke out and for a time the government of the new state was able to maintain order only with the help of the Soviet troops.

• Held: Only in 1918, Finland became a state.

(4) Capacity to enter into relations with other States

• When the Montevideo Convention refers to ‘capacity to enter into relations with other States’, it is referring to “independence” in law from the authority of other States.

• In Austro-German Customs Union case, (1931) PCIJ Reports, Series A/B, No. 41, Austria and Germany, by a Protocol of 1931, reached an agreement on a customs union establishing free trade between the two States.

Judgment of Judge Anzilotti:

“Independence may also be described as sovereignty by which is meant that the state has over it no other authority than that of international law.

• It also follows that the restrictions upon a State’s liberty, whether arising out of ordinary international law or contractual engagements, do not as such in the least affect its independence. As long as these restrictions do not place the State under the legal authority of another State, the former remains an independent State however extensive and burdensome those obligations may be.

Federal States

• A federal State is a union of several sovereignStates. The union is, first, based on aninternational treaty of the member states, andsecondly on a subsequently acceptedconstitution of the federal State.• In the view of Professor Wade, federation pre-supposes a desire for some form of unionamong independent States, which, though theydesire union for some purposes, neverthelesswish to preserve their identity and somemeasure of independence.

A distinctive feature of a federal State isthat in foreign policy it acts as a singlesubject of international law. Thus a federalState is said to be a real State and aninternational person.• On the other hand, the internationalposition of the member states is not soclear.

Units (member states) within a federal State mayor may not be allowed by the federal constitutionsome freedom to conduct their own foreignaffairs.• If, and to the extent that, they are allowed to doso, such units are regarded by international lawas having international personality.• E.g., the Republics of the former USSR were allentitled in law to conduct their own foreign affairsand two of them – Byelorussia and the Ukraine -to a small extent did so.

The Malaysian Practice

• If we read together Articles 74, 76 and theFederal List of the Federal Constitution ofMalaysia, it is crystal clear that the federalParliament and the Federal Executive (theCabinet) have the exclusive power relating to“external affairs”, foreign affairs or internationalrelations. No such power can be exercised bythe component states.• The conclusion then is that in Malaysiainternational personality is vested in the FederalState and the component states possess nointernational personality whatsoever.

INDIVIDU

1. Dipelopori oleh Kelsen dan Westlake.Alasan: negara hanya merupakan suatu konsep hukum semata, tanpa manusia/individu, konsep hukum negara tidak ada artinya.

2. Hak dan kewajiban negara adalah pada individu.

Bukti pengakuan individu sebagai subyek HI

Deklarasi Hak Asasi Manusia 1948;Konvensi Jenewa 1949 tentang Perlindungan

Korban Perang;Konvensi Jenewa 1951 tentang Status Pengungsi;Dibidang Penerbangan, seperti : Konvensi Tokyo

1963, Konvensi Montreal 1971 dan Konvensi Den Haag 1970 (Kejahatan Pembajakan Pesawat Udara);

Kejahatan perang oleh penjahat perang (individu)

• Memperlakukan secara melawan hukum tawanan yang luka/sakit;

Memperlakukan secara melawan hukum penduduk sipil di daerah yang dikuasai /konflik;

Menyerang fasilitas-fasilitas sipil/ kota yang tidak dilengkapi dengan pertahanan yang memadai;

Melakukan pembunuhan masal (genocida);

• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY): http://www.un.org/icty/cases-e/indexe.htm

• 2. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR): http://69.94.11.53/

• 3. International Criminal Court (ICC): http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en

ICC

Rome Statute of the ICC:(a) The crime of genocide;(b) Crimes against humanity;(c) War crimes;(d) The crime of aggression;

Admissibility ICC

1. The case is being investigated or prosecuted by a State which has jurisdiction over it, unless the State is unwilling or unable genuinely to carry out the investigation or prosecution;

2. The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;

3. The person concerned has already been tried for conduct which is the subject of the complaint, and a trial by the Court is not permitted under article 20, paragraph

4. The case is not of sufficient gravity to justify further action by the Court.

Vatikan dan Tahta suci

1. Pemerintah Tahta Suci, Kardinal Pietro Gaspari dan Perdana Menteri Kerajaan Italia, Benito Mussolini: “…the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the Holy See ever the City of the Vatican.”

2. Menjadi anggota badan-badan PBB seperti ILO dan WHO.

The International Committee of the RedCross (ICRC);

1. Organisasi Privat, berpusat di Switzerland dan berdasarkan hukum Swiss;

3. Berdasarkan Konvensi Jenewa 1949 tentang perlindungan korban perang, ICRC mempunyai “unique distinction” sehingga dapat berhubungan langsung dengan negara-negara berkaitan dengan perlindungan korban perang;

Insurgencies1. Harus dibedakan dengan riots, rebellions dan

insurgencies. PLO, 1974 mendapatkan status sebagai

Observer dalam United Nations. Tahun berikutnya Yaser Arafat mendapatkan kesempatan untuk berbicara di Sidang Umum.

GAM?2. Setelah mendapatkan status Belligerent, maka

negara-negara di luar konflik harus netral.

Belligerenta. Memiliki sebuah organisasi “pemerintahan”

sendiri;b. Kekuatan militernya telah menduduki

wilayah tertentuc. Mempunyai kontrol efektif atas wilayah

tersebut.d. Anggota militernya memiliki seragam dengan

tanda-tanda khusus dengan peralatan militer yang cukup