The Concept of Welfare State in the 1945 NRI Constitution between Ideas and Reality

Abstract

Indonesia legally declares itself to be a welfare state, this view is clearly stated in the 1945 NRI Constitution. In the 4th paragraph of the Preamble to the 1945 NRI Constitution, the state wishes to promote general welfare. This view shows that Indonesia is a welfare state, because building prosperity for its people is a constitutional mandate, thus giving the government an obligation to create a social order of life that is socially just for all Indonesian people. However, the realization of the welfare values mandated by the constitution has not yet been fully implemented and felt by the Indonesian people. It is on this issue that the welfare state that is to be built is still struggling between ideas and reality.