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Redesigning Legislation in the Era of Industry 4.0: Toward a Technology-Responsive Regulatory Framework in Indonesia Rahmat Dwi Putranto; Indah Sri Utari; Ratih Damayanti; Salman Alfarisi; Umar Mubdi
Journal of Law and Legal Reform Vol. 7 No. 4 (2026): October, 2026 (In Press)
Publisher : Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/jllr.v7i4.63944

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The rapid development of Industry 4.0 technologies, including artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, automation, blockchain, and digital platforms, has fundamentally transformed social, economic, and governmental activities and generated increasingly complex regulatory challenges. These technological transformations require legislation to move beyond conventional and predominantly reactive approaches toward a more adaptive, anticipatory, and technology-responsive regulatory design. In Indonesia, significant reforms have been introduced to improve the legislative process, including recognizing electronic law-making and strengthening meaningful public participation. Nevertheless, the existing legislative framework remains insufficiently responsive to the speed, complexity, uncertainty, and cross-sectoral nature of technological change. The central problem is therefore not merely the absence of technology-related regulation, but the inadequacy of the existing legislative design to anticipate technological developments, maintain regulatory coherence, incorporate technological expertise, and ensure continuous public participation and regulatory evaluation. This study examines the need to redesign legislation in the era of Industry 4.0 and to formulate a technology-responsive regulatory framework for Indonesia. Using a socio-legal approach, the study examines legislation, regulatory policies, institutional practices, and the interaction between technological transformation and legal development. The findings show that Indonesia needs to shift from a reactive legislative model to an adaptive, anticipatory model characterized by technological foresight, evidence-based lawmaking, regulatory coherence, interdisciplinary expertise, meaningful digital participation, regulatory experimentation, and continuous monitoring and evaluation. Accordingly, this study proposes a technology-responsive legislative framework that integrates technological assessment into the legislative cycle, strengthens institutional and expert capacity, facilitates inclusive digital participation, and establishes mechanisms for periodic regulatory review. The proposed framework supports a more adaptive, coherent, participatory, and future-oriented legislative system that can respond to technological transformation while safeguarding legal certainty, accountability, public interests, and fundamental rights.
Structural Vulnerability and Victim Protection in Human Trafficking across Indonesia and India Indah Sri Utari; Bhanu Prakash Nunna; Diandra Preludio Ramada; Salman Alfarisi
Journal of Human Rights, Culture and Legal System Vol. 6 No. 3 (2026): Journal of Human Rights, Culture and Legal System
Publisher : Yayasan Pendidikan Contrarius Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.68247/jhcls.v6i3.921

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Human trafficking is a complex form of exploitation rooted in structural inequality and social vulnerability. While existing scholarship has examined trafficking through legal, sociological, and policy perspectives, limited attention has been given to how vulnerability is produced, experienced, and potentially reproduced through institutional responses. This research examines victim vulnerability and protection in Indonesia and India through an integrated criminological and victimological perspective. It employs a comparative socio-legal and documentary research design based exclusively on secondary sources, including international legal instruments, national legislation, official statistics, institutional reports, and peer-reviewed literature. The findings demonstrate three principal findings. First, vulnerability to human trafficking results from interconnected socioeconomic and structural factors, including poverty, economic insecurity, gender inequality, migration pressures, social marginalization, and institutional weaknesses, while stigma and economic loss perpetuate vulnerability after victimization. Second, Indonesia and India demonstrate persistent gaps between formal legal protection and effective implementation, particularly in institutional coordination, restitution, rehabilitation, and victim reintegration. Third, sustainable victim recovery requires an integrated framework combining legal remedies, compensation, psychosocial assistance, livelihood support, survivor participation, and community-based reintegration through coordinated institutional case management and accessible victim services
Legal Protection for Workers with Disabilities in Indonesia: Implementation Analysis and Comparison with Japan from a Labor Justice Perspective Salman Alfarisi; Ratih Damayanti
Semarang State University Undergraduate Law and Society Review Vol. 6 No. 1 (2026): January-June, 2026
Publisher : Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/lsr.v6i1.35803

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Workers with disabilities in Indonesia continue to face legal, structural, and social barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment in the formal sector, despite a legal framework that recognizes equal employment rights and freedom from discrimination. These barriers include fragmented regulations, weak institutional coordination, limited accessibility, inadequate workplace support, weak monitoring, and inconsistent enforcement. This study aims to analyze the legal implementation of disability employment protection in Indonesia through secondary evidence and to identify legal and institutional factors affecting its operation, while comparing Indonesia’s legal and institutional mechanisms with those of Japan. This normative-juridical study employs a comparative approach to relevant legislation, international legal instruments, policy documents, official reports, available data, and academic literature. The findings indicate that the main challenge lies not in the absence of legal recognition but in the limited operationalization of legal norms, weak oversight capacity, and inconsistent enforcement mechanisms. The comparison shows that Japan combines statutory protection with more developed administrative mechanisms, including employment reporting, reasonable accommodation guidance, and incentive-based compliance measures. The study concludes that strengthening disability employment protection in Indonesia requires clearer operational standards, stronger institutional coordination and oversight, more consistent enforcement, and contextual adaptation of relevant comparative practices. The study contributes to understanding how the protection of workers with disabilities depends not only on normative recognition but also on the institutional and administrative mechanisms that translate legal rights into effective protection.