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Indonesian Law - LAWS3139
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: LAWS1001 and LAWS1011 and Corequisite: LAWS2311; Prerequisite: JURD7101 and JURD7111 and Corequisite: JURD7211
 
 
Excluded: JURD7539
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 3 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The course provides an introduction to the Indonesian legal system: its modern form based within the civil law tradition and implications for legal pluralism that arise from co-existing Shariah law and Adat (customary) law. Recent developments and reforms in response to political, social and cultural change since 1997 will be covered. The course will take a thematic approach by considering issues within democratisation, decentralisation, Indonesian law-making style and form, and the court system. Legal subject areas will include constitutional law, investment law, commercial law, natural resources management, environmental law, land law, and human rights.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

A candidate who has successfully completed this course should be able to:
  • identify the components of the Indonesian legal system;
  • understand the operation of and tensions within a pluralist legal system in a developing country;
  • analyse and evaluate effectiveness of legal regulation in substantive subject areas.

Main Topics

  • Sources of Indonesian law: civil law, Adat, religious law
  • Constitutional arrangements (including implications of decentralisation)
  • Law-making in Indonesia
  • Courts in Indonesia
  • natural resources management
  • environmental law
  • land law
  • investment law
  • commercial law
  • law of personal status

Assessment

Class participation: 20%

Seminar presentation: 20%

Research essay (3,000 words): 60%

Course Texts

Prescribed
Course materials provided prior to commencement.

Recommended

  • T Lindsay (ed) Indonesia: Law and Society (2nd ed, 2008, Federation Press)

Resources

Refer to the course outline which will be provided by the lecturer at the beginning of the relevant semester.

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