Lex Publica
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025)

Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) From Indonesian Law Perspective

Vegatasia Soetiyono, Putri Mayessa (Unknown)
Estisari, Yunia (Unknown)
Raditya, Shambawa Dharma (Unknown)
Mandala, Samaya Dharma (Unknown)
Kustanto, Anto (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Nov 2025

Abstract

This study analyzes the practice of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) in Indonesia, highlighting national legal loopholes that enable strategic litigation to suppress public participation. The research’s novelty lies in a comprehensive evaluation of Indonesian legal provisions and the proposal of innovative legal strategies for prevention, including the integration of anti-SLAPP principles into non-sectoral procedural reforms. A normative juridical approach is combined with comparative methods, comparing anti-SLAPP practices in the United States and the United Kingdom to identify effective models of legal protection. Qualitative-descriptive data analysis, including the Bangka Belitung High Court decision Number 21/Pid/2021/PT BBL and PT KLM’s lawsuit against IPB academics, demonstrates that SLAPPs impose financial, psychological, and social burdens on activists, journalists, and civil society organizations. The strategy for preventing and handling SLAPPs must be holistic, encompassing the development of an anti-SLAPP bill, revisions to the criminal procedure code, strengthening the ITE Law and the public information disclosure law, and training judges to recognize indicators of strategic lawsuits.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

lexpublica

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Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

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Lex Publica (e-issn 2579-8855; p-issn 2354-9181) is an international, double blind peer reviewed, open access journal, featuring scholarly work which examines critical developments in the substance and process of legal systems throughout the world. Lex Publica published biannually online every June ...