Ravio Patra is a researcher who was accused by the police of circulating WhatsApp messages to incite a riot on April 30, which he denies while claiming his Whats-App account had been “hijacked’’. Later, he was released after being apprehended for 33 hours with no charges against him. Students in Malang, East Java, were also…
The House of Representatives (DPR) published in January its list of priority bills (National Legislative Program, Prolegnas) for 2020. It says it plans to deliberate 54 bills(link is external) in this year’s legislative sitting period, and they include four worrying: “carry-over bills”(link is external) from the previous DPR term (2014-2019): the revised criminal code bill (RKUHP or RUU KUHP), amendments to…
Usai dilantik, Presiden Joko “Jokowi” Widodo menyampaikan gagasannya untuk mengeluarkan omnibus law atau satu undang-undang (UU) baru yang akan merevisi sejumlah UU yang sudah ada guna memangkas hambatan regulasi. Jokowi berencana akan mengeluarkan dua omnibus law atau UU sapu jagat terkait aturan penciptaan lapangan kerja dan pemberdayaan usaha mikro, kecil, dan menengah (UMKM) guna meningkatkan daya saing dan mendorong investasi di…
In his closing remarks at the National Conference on Constitutional Law in Jakarta a couple of weeks ago, State Secretary Pratikno conveyed President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s desire to carry out regulatory reform. Among the efforts is to establish a special body to harmonize regulations and legislation. The issue of regulatory disharmony was initially raised in…
Proses untuk buru-buru mengesahkan Rancangan Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana (RKUHP) dan, sebaliknya, menunda-nunda Rancangan Undang-Undang Pencegahan Kekerasan Seksual (RUU PKS) menegaskan perempuan terus menjadi korban dalam berbagai aspek. Bahwa perempuan kerap diasosiasikan sebagai warga kelas dua Indonesia bukanlah hal baru. Hak-hak perempuan masih terbatas dan mereka rentan menjadi korban kekerasan seksual apapun afiliasi politiknya. Akan tetapi, akan…
There is a growing anxiety among rights activists regarding the trajectory of Indonesia’s democracy. The current consensus among political and constitutional scholars is that democracy in Indonesia is on the verge of regression, if not already in a state of decline. Democratic regression is always a slow-moving process, in which political and social actors gradually…
In the recent televised debate between Indonesia’s vice presidential candidates, Ma’ruf Amin and Sandiaga Uno, were asked about the threat of “dehumanisation” of the workforce in the face of Industry 4.0(link is external), the fourth industrial revolution. Both candidates responded by outlining their strategies for raising the quality of human resources in Indonesia, but neither clearly…
Indonesia is facing a crisis of “hyper-regulation”. Politicians seems to consider law to be a panacea(link is external) for any and all of the country’s ills, with the result being too many regulations, with too little coordination and even less scope for enforcement. From 2014 to October 2018, as many as 8,945 new regulations were issued at…
Indonesia is facing a crisis of “hyper-regulation”. Politicians seems to consider law to be a panacea(link is external) for any and all of the country’s ills, with the result being too many regulations, with too little coordination and even less scope for enforcement. From 2014 to October 2018, as many as 8,945 new regulations were issued at…