Some in Indonesia argue that the country should continue maintaining a system under which law legitimates unequal land distribution, while others are willing to face up...
However, despite these external influences, it is important to emphasize that national identity and local values still play a vital role in shaping a country’s constitution....
Some governments in the world community are now coming to acknowledge these facts, but acknowledgement is not accountability. Reform efforts--decriminalization, harm reduction, policy review--are scattered and...
Reform is no longer a question of choice, it is an urgent necessity. First, the functions of institutions must be made clear. Then overlapping authorities must...
What counts most, though, is that we have to redefine our thinking about the aim of recruiting. Our goal is not to fill positions. It is...
If present trends in Indonesia's program continue, agrarian reform would be not an example of how one thing can go from bad to better, but rather...
Syria is not just a reminder but also proof. When international law fails, the happening of unspeakable atrocities turns into a enablement of them. The world...
Until the transformation just described takes place, Indonesia’s land administration system will keep on creating the very insecurity that it claims to cure. There will be...
Defenders of our present way might argue that fighting nuanced corruption requires flexibility. But they misunderstand the very nature of law. Flexibility in investigation is one...
The space that digital technology, originally believed as a means of empowerment would bring more democratic processes is repressed in quiet desperation all the evidence from...