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Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia

Article 28b
(2) Every child shall have the right to live, to grow and to develop, and shall have the right to protection from violence and discrimination.

Article 28c
(1) Every person shall have the right to develop him/herself through the fulfilment of his/her basic needs, the right to get education and to benefit from science and technology, arts and culture, for the purpose of improving the quality of his/her life and for the welfare of the human race.

Article 28f
Every person shall have the right to communicate and to obtain information for the purpose of the development of his/her self and social environment, and shall have the right to seek, obtain, possess, store, process and convey information by employing all available types of channels.

Article 28h
(1) Every person shall have the right to live in physical and spiritual prosperity, to have a home and to enjoy a good and healthy environment, and shall have the right to obtain medical care.

Article 28i
(2) Every person shall have the right to be free from discriminative treatment based upon any grounds whatsoever and shall have the right to protection from such discriminative treatment.

Article 28j
(2) In exercising his/her rights and freedoms, every person shall have the duty to accept the restrictions established by law for the sole purposes of guaranteeing the recognition and respect of the rights and freedoms of others and of satisfying just demands based upon considerations of morality, religious values, security and public order in a democratic society.

Article 31
(1) Each citizen has the right to an education.
(2) Each citizen is obliged to follow elementary education and the government has the duty to fund this.
(3) The government organizes and implements a national education system, to be regulated by law, that aims at enhancing religious and pious feelings as well as moral excellence with a view to upgrading national life.
(4) The state shall give priority to the education budget by allocating at least twenty percent of the state's as well as of the regional budgets to meet the requirements of implementing national education.
(5) The government advances science and technology along with holding religious values and national unity in high esteem with a view to promoting civilization as well as the well-being of humanity.

Article 34
(1) Impoverished persons and abandoned children are to be taken care of by the state.
(2) The state develops a social security system for everybody and empowers the weak and underprivileged in society in accordance with their dignity as human beings.
(3) The state has the responsibility to provide proper medical and public service facilities.

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