Research project
Indonesian Law & Society Research Programme
How is law shaped by and shaping social, political and economic change in Indonesia?
- Contact
- Adriaan Bedner
Description
The Indonesian Law & Society Research Programme brings together interdisciplinary socio-legal research focused on the intersections of law, state, and society in Indonesia. Building on VVI’s longstanding tradition in research on Indonesia’s legal system, we explore how legal frameworks are shaped by and shaping social, political and economic change in Indonesia. Using a critical and comparative approach and taking rule of law and social justice as its point of departure, the programme fosters both grounded fieldwork and theoretical innovation, engaging with law and society themes such as lawmaking, implementation of law, access to justice, dispute resolution, and legal pluralism.
The programme contains the following sub-programmes:
Ongoing projects
- Lawmaking Politics Under Democratic Decline in Indonesia (LAMPU)
- Judicial Independence and Impartiality in the Global Tax Environment: The Indonesian Tax Court Experience (Fadhilatul Hikmah, PhD research)
- In pursuit of an identity: The making of national criminal law in post-colonial Indonesia (Anugerah Akbari, PhD research)
Completed projects
- Strengthening Legal Education in Eastern Indonesia
- Strengthening Indonesia's Ombudsmans in the Regions
- Promoting Legal Certainty and Increasing Judicial Skills in Selected Areas
- Access to Justice in Indonesia
- Maintaining order: Public Prosecutors in Post-Authoritarian Countries, the case of Indonesia (Afandi, F. 2021) (PhD research)
- How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia (Kouwagam, S.U. 2020) (PhD research)
- Promoting Human Rights: National Human Rights Commissions in Indonesia and Malaysia (Setiawan, K.M.P. 2013) (PhD research)
Ongoing projects:
- Climate Litigation in Normalizing River in Jakarta (Vera Wheni Setijawati, PhD research)
- Rethinking Citizenship through Water Struggles in Jakarta’s Coastal Kampongs- A Socio-Legal Study of Urban Resilience and Uneven Infrastructure (Widya Tuslian, PhD research)
Completed projects:
- Making Environmental Regulation Work for the People
- Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims in China and Indonesia
- Rethinking Adat strategies: the politics of state recognition of customary land rights in Indonesia (Arizona, Y. 2022) (PhD research)
- Land rights and the forces of adat in democratizing Indonesia : continuous conflict between plantations, farmers, and forests in South Sulawesi (Muur, W.E. van der 2019) (PhD research)
- Addressing industrial pollution in Indonesia: The nexus between regulation and redress seeking (D'Hondt, L.Y. 2019) (PhD research)
- Indonesian law and leality in the Delta : a socio-legal inquiry into laws, local bureaucrats and natural resources management in the Mahakam Delta, East Kalimantan (Simarmata, R. 2012) (PhD research)
- Spatial management in Indonesia : from planning to implementation : cases from West Java and Bandung : a socio-legal study (Moeliono, T.P. 2011) (PhD research)
- Tenure Security for Indonesia’s Urban Poor : a socio-legal study on land, decentralisation, and the rule of law in Bandung (Reerink, G.O. 2011) (PhD research)
- Forest tenure in Indonesia : the socio-legal challenges of securing communities' rights (Safitri, M.A. 2010) (PhD research)
- JARAK: the commoditization of an alternative biofuel crop in Indonesia
Ongoing projects:
- Project for Innovation of Teaching Adat Law (PINTAL)
- Asylum and Refugee Law in Indonesia: A Socio-legal Perspective on Lawmaking and Discretionary Implementation of Law (Bilal Dewansyah, PhD research)
- Age of Consent in the Case of Adolescent Sexual Violence in Indonesia (Priscilla Yovia, PhD research)
- Access to Justice in Aceh: A Socio-legal Study of Family Disputes and The Limits of Redress (Nanda Amalia, PhD research)
- Legal identity of religious minorities in Indonesia (Anton Cahyadi, PhD research)
Completed projects:
- Access to Justice in Indonesia
- Marriage Law and Practice in Indonesia
- State legal pluralism: the intersection of Adat, Jinayah and National Penal Law in Gayo, Indonesia (Arfiansyah, A. 2022) (PhD research)
- Child marriage as a choice: rethinking agency in international human rights (Horii, H 2020) (PhD research)
- Labour law and development in Indonesia (Tjandra, S. 2016) (PhD research)
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