Vol 1 No 1 (2025): June

Corruption remains a persistent challenge that undermines governance effectiveness, legal certainty, and sustainable development in Indonesia. Although Indonesia’s National Long-Term Development Plan (RPJPN) 2025–2045 identifies anti-corruption reform as a strategic priority, limited scholarly attention has examined how this framework contributes to strengthening the rule of law and sustainable legal development. This study aims to analyze the anti-corruption framework embedded within the RPJPN 2025–2045 and evaluate its potential contribution to governance reform in Indonesia. Using a qualitative doctrinal approach, the research relies on document analysis of the RPJPN, relevant legislation, government policy documents, and contemporary literature on anti-corruption and governance. Data were analyzed through thematic content analysis focusing on preventive, institutional, participatory, and enforcement-oriented strategies. The findings reveal that the RPJPN adopts a comprehensive anti-corruption framework integrating anti-corruption education, digital governance, public participation, institutional oversight, prosecution reform, and asset recovery mechanisms. The framework reflects a shift from a predominantly punitive model toward a more preventive and governance-oriented approach to corruption control. However, the study also identifies several implementation challenges, including political interference, uneven institutional capacity, disparities in digital infrastructure, and limited public engagement. The novelty of this study lies in its examination of the RPJPN 2025–2045 as an integrated long-term legal governance instrument for anti-corruption reform, an aspect rarely discussed in existing literature. This article contributes to the discourse on rule of law and governance by demonstrating how anti-corruption policy, institutional reform, and sustainable development objectives can be integrated within a national development planning framework.

Industrial workplace accidents continue to reveal significant weaknesses in Indonesia’s occupational safety and labor protection framework, particularly regarding enforcement mechanisms, employer accountability, and access to workers’ compensation. Existing studies on Indonesian labor law have primarily focused on national regulatory structures, while limited attention has been given to the role of regional legal governance in strengthening occupational safety enforcement. This study aims to critically evaluate the effectiveness of Indonesia’s occupational safety and health (OSH) regulations and to examine the potential role of regional labor regulations in improving worker protection at the local level. The research employs a normative-juridical and comparative legal approach through the analysis of statutory regulations, doctrinal legal materials, and international labor standards, particularly International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 155 and Convention No. 187. The findings demonstrate that Indonesia’s labor protection regime remains hindered by fragmented regulatory implementation, weak institutional supervision, limited labor inspection capacity, and inconsistencies in compensation procedures affecting vulnerable and contractual workers. The study further finds that the absence of responsive regional labor regulations contributes to enforcement gaps, particularly in industrial areas with limited administrative oversight. By linking occupational safety governance with decentralization and regional regulatory reform, this article offers a doctrinal contribution to labor law scholarship and proposes a more integrated legal framework for strengthening occupational safety protections in Indonesia. The study is limited to normative and regulatory analysis and does not include empirical field investigation.

Constitutional courts play an essential role in safeguarding democracy, maintaining constitutional supremacy, and protecting fundamental rights within modern legal systems. This study aims to analyze and compare the roles of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia (Mahkamah Konstitusi) and the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in upholding democratic governance and constitutional order. Using a normative-juridical and comparative constitutional law approach, this research examines constitutional provisions, statutory regulations, landmark judicial decisions, and recent scholarly literature related to constitutional adjudication and judicial independence. The findings reveal that both courts function as guardians of democracy through judicial review and constitutional interpretation; however, significant differences exist regarding institutional independence, enforcement mechanisms, judicial authority, and public trust. Germany’s constitutional model demonstrates stronger institutional stability, abstract constitutional review, and higher legal compliance, whereas Indonesia’s Constitutional Court continues to face challenges associated with political influence, democratic consolidation, and inconsistent implementation of constitutional decisions. The originality of this study lies in its integration of comparative constitutional analysis with contemporary discussions on democratic resilience and judicial legitimacy in transitional democracies. Nevertheless, this research is limited to doctrinal and comparative legal analysis and does not incorporate empirical interviews or quantitative institutional data. The study concludes that strengthening judicial independence, enhancing constitutional enforcement, and improving public trust are essential to reinforce democratic governance in Indonesia. This research contributes to the broader discourse on comparative constitutional law and the evolving role of constitutional courts in contemporary democracies.

Rapid digital transformation and increasing cross-border data flows have intensified concerns regarding digital privacy and personal data protection in Southeast Asia. This study aims to analyze the principal legal and institutional challenges hindering the harmonization of digital privacy regulation within ASEAN and to evaluate strategies for strengthening regional digital governance cooperation. Using a normative juridical method with statutory, conceptual, and comparative approaches, this research examines digital governance frameworks in several Southeast Asian countries alongside ASEAN initiatives and international standards such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The study finds that ASEAN member states continue to experience significant disparities in legal definitions, enforcement mechanisms, cybersecurity governance, and institutional capacity, resulting in regulatory fragmentation and weak regional interoperability. The findings further demonstrate that ASEAN’s digital governance framework remains predominantly soft-law oriented and institutionally fragmented, limiting the effectiveness of regional harmonization efforts. In addition, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, fintech systems, and biometric data processing create new regulatory challenges concerning accountability, digital sovereignty, and consumer protection. The novelty of this research lies in its integrated comparative analysis combining digital privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence governance, and adaptive governance perspectives within a unified Southeast Asian legal framework, which remains underexplored in previous studies. Nevertheless, this study is limited by its doctrinal and desk-based methodology without empirical investigation or stakeholder interviews.

Climate change poses significant environmental and social challenges for countries in the Global South, which experience disproportionate impacts despite contributing relatively little to global greenhouse gas emissions. While environmental justice has become an important legal and policy concern, the role of Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic family law in addressing climate-related vulnerabilities remains underexplored. This study aims to reconstruct the principles of uṣūl al-fiqh and Islamic family law as normative foundations for promoting environmental justice and climate resilience in Muslim-majority societies. Using a doctrinal legal research method with a normative-analytical approach, the study examines classical and contemporary Islamic legal sources, focusing on maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, maṣlaḥah, istiṣlāḥ, and sadd al-dharā’iʿ. Data were analyzed through thematic review and normative reconstruction of literature on Islamic family law, environmental justice, and climate governance. The findings indicate that Islamic legal principles provide a flexible framework for integrating environmental protection into legal reasoning. Environmental justice can be interpreted as an extension of maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, particularly through the protection of life, property, lineage, and intergenerational welfare. Furthermore, Islamic family law can strengthen climate resilience by incorporating environmental responsibilities into family welfare, resource management, and intergenerational obligations. The study’s novelty lies in integrating environmental justice with both uṣūl al-fiqh and Islamic family law, resulting in a reconstructive model that positions environmental justice as an internal objective of Islamic legal reasoning. This framework contributes to the development of Islamic environmental jurisprudence and climate justice initiatives in the Global South.