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  • Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025)

    Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025) brings together timely legal scholarship on Indonesia’s evolving legal landscape while drawing insights from comparative perspectives. This issue explores stronger legal safeguards in juvenile criminal proceedings, legal policy responses to shifting global dynamics, and child marriage prevention through context-sensitive and normative approaches to child marriage.

    It also highlights the pressing challenges at the intersection of law, sustainability, and consumer protection, such as greenwashing, circular economy initiatives, local wisdom, and geographical indications as tools for environmental governance. In addition, the issue examines key regulatory and enforcement debates, including the implications of Indonesia’s amended Electronic Information and Transactions Law (ITE Law) for digital democracy, anti-corruption frameworks and asset recovery, witness and victim protection mechanisms, and the legal position of emerging digital innovations such as e-notary in civil disputes. Overall, this edition offers accessible and policy-relevant insights for readers interested in building a more responsive, fair, and sustainable legal system.

  • Vol. 25 No. 2 (2024)

    Vol. 25 No. 2 (2024) brings together legal scholarship addressing Indonesia’s evolving governance and institutional landscape, including administrative justice, electoral law enforcement, and accountability of public authorities. The issue also highlights access to justice and the protection of vulnerable groups, with discussions on children’s rights, disability in education, domestic violence, labor-related offenses, and the right to legal assistance in criminal proceedings.

    In addition, this edition examines key regulatory debates connected to economic development and sustainability, such as corporate social and environmental responsibility, capital market regulation, digital banking and consumer protection, and the legal politics of forestry and mining licensing. Overall, this issue offers timely and critical insights into how Indonesian law responds to democratic challenges, digital transformation, and sustainable development.

  • Vol. 25 No. 1 (2024)

    Vol. 25 No. 1 (2024) features focused legal scholarship on key developments in Indonesian law, with particular attention to criminal law reform, human rights, and land governance issues. This issue examines contemporary land-related debates, from lease rights for foreign nationals as an alternative form of land control to the legal status of abandoned ex-HGU land managed by local communities.

    This issue also highlights major shifts in Indonesia’s criminal justice landscape, including the treatment of gross human rights violations under the 2023 Criminal Code, stronger penalties for obstruction of justice, and comparative perspectives on rape regulation between Indonesia’s new Criminal Code and the UK’s Sexual Offences Act 2003. In addition, it addresses emerging legal challenges in the digital era, such as the protection of YouTubers’ intellectual property in bank financing transactions and the evolving meaning of “property” in Indonesian and Dutch criminal jurisprudence in response to cyber-related crimes. Overall, this edition offers timely and critical insights for advancing a more responsive and justice-oriented legal system.

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