Indonesian Law - LAWS3139
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: Crime & Criminal Process (LAWS1021/JURD7121) & Criminal Laws (LAWS1022/JURD7122) OR Crim. Law 1 (LAWS1001/JURD7101) & Crim. Law 2 (LAWS1011/JURD7111). Co-requisite: Litigation 1 [LAWS2311/ JURD7211] OR Res. Civil Disp. (LAWS2371/JURD7271)
Excluded: JURD7539
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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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
Course Objectives
- 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
Seminar presentation: 20%
Research essay (3,000 words): 60%
Course Texts
Recommended
- T Lindsay (ed) Indonesia: Law and Society (2nd ed, 2008, Federation Press)
Resources