Indonesia: Law and Society (2nd Edition)
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Indonesia: Law and Society (2nd Edition) |
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Tim Lindsey, editor
Date of publication: 2008
Publisher: The Federation Press
Number of pages: 734
Code: BM348
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About the Publication
Indonesia: Law and Society surveys the legal system of the worlds largest Muslim society, the gigantic Southeast Asian democracy with the worlds fourth-largest population. The book tracks and explains the extraordinary process of Reformasi, the radical programme of legal, political and social change that replaced authoritarianism after the fall of Soeharto in 1998.
The authors cover a wide range of current legal issues in Indonesia, including: commercial law; land law; constitutional change; crime and violence; terrorism; Islamization; indigenous rights; corruption; judicial reform; environmental law; human rights; race and gender discrimination; competition law; labour law; and bankruptcy law.
Indonesia: Law and Society is the most comprehensive English language analysis of current Indonesian law. Contributors include leading scholars and lawyers from Indonesia, Europe, the United States, and Australia. Designed for use by both specialists and beginners, it offers a detailed insight into legal and social controversies in contemporary Indonesia, as well as a general introduction to its complex legal system.
The authors cover a wide range of current legal issues in Indonesia, including: commercial law; land law; constitutional change; crime and violence; terrorism; Islamization; indigenous rights; corruption; judicial reform; environmental law; human rights; race and gender discrimination; competition law; labour law; and bankruptcy law.
Indonesia: Law and Society is the most comprehensive English language analysis of current Indonesian law. Contributors include leading scholars and lawyers from Indonesia, Europe, the United States, and Australia. Designed for use by both specialists and beginners, it offers a detailed insight into legal and social controversies in contemporary Indonesia, as well as a general introduction to its complex legal system.
Co-publication: The Federation Press
The Federation Press
Contents
Preliminary pages |
PART I: A REFORMED REPUBLIC? |
1. The trajectory of law reform in Indonesia: A short overview of legal systems and change in Indonesia, by Tim Lindsey, Mas Achmad Santosa, authors |
2. Constitutional reform in Indonesia: Muddling towards democracy, by Tim Lindsey, author |
3. Between state and society: Professional lawyers and reform in Indonesia |
4. Indonesian law reform, or once more unto the breach: A brief institutional history |
PART II: ADAT AND LAW IN A PLURAL SOCIETY |
5. Positivism and romanticism in Indonesian legal thought |
6. Between crime and custom: Extra-marital sex in modern Indonesian law |
7. Adat, Conflict and Reconciliation: The Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku |
PART III: DECENTRALISATION AND LAND LAW |
8. Decentralisation and legal reform in Indonesia: The pendulum effect |
9. Indonesian land law and administration |
10. Beyond dualism: Land acquisition and law in Indonesia |
11. Forest and mining legislation in Indonesia |
PART IV: ISLAM AND THE LAW |
12. Polygamy and mixed marriage in Indonesia: Islam and the Marriage Law in the courts |
13. Legislating social change in an Islamic society: Indonesias Marriage Law |
14. Indonesian Islamic banking in historical and legal context |
15. Islamic inheritance law in Indonesia: The influence of Jazairin's theory of bilateral inheritance |
PART V: JUDGES AND LAW |
16. Surat Sakti: The decline of the authority of judicial decisions in Indonesia |
17. The importance of private law doctrine in Indonesia |
18. Indonesias national and local Ombudsman reforms: Salvaging a failed experiment? |
19. Measuring up? Indonesias Anti-Corruption Commission and the new corruption agenda |
20. The Bali Bombing, East Timor trials and the Aceh Human Rights Court retrospectivity, impunity and constitutionalism |
PART VI: HUMAN RIGHTS, GENDER AND THE LAW |
21. The legal framework of human rights in Indonesia |
22. Gender and law reform in Indonesia: Overcoming entrenched barriers |
23. Culture, ideology and human rights: The case of Indonesias Code of Criminal Procedure |
24. Legal responses to violence in post-Soeharto Indonesia |
25. Labour law and practice in post-Soeharto Indonesia |
PART VII: COMMERCIAL LAW AND REFORM |
26. Contract and contract enforcement in Indonesia: An institutional assessment |
27. Commercial law enforcement in Indonesia: The Manulife case |
28. Intellectual property in Indonesia: A problematic legal transplant |
29. The Competition Commission: A new kind of player in Indonesia's legal system |
Glossary |
Table of cases and decisions |
Table of legislation |
Sources |
Index |
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