International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026): International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities

Legal Protection of Workers in Higher Education Institutional Restructuring in Indonesia: Perspectives of Legal Certainty and Justice: Indonesian

Pradipta Prihantono (Magsiter of Law, UPN “Veteran” Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesian)
Heru Sugiyono (Magsiter of Law, UPN “Veteran” Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesian)
Andriyanto Adhi Nugroho (Magsiter of Law, UPN “Veteran” Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesian)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2026

Abstract

Institutional restructuring in higher education is strategies used to improve governmance quality, management effeicienty, competitiveness, and institutional sustainability. Such restructuring may take the form of mergers, institutional objectives, it may alaso raise legal issues, particulary concerning employment status, financial right, welfare guarantees and legal certainty for academic and non=academic staff. This articlr aims to analyse the legal protection of workers in higher education instutional restructuring in Indonesia and to formulate legal protection model based on legal certainty an justice. This study uses a normative juridical method with statutory anc conceptual approaches. The findings show that labor law and higher education law provide general protection for workers; homewer, the do not specifically regulate employmen transition mechanisms in higher education restructuring, as aresult employe protection often depend on the internal policies of each governing body. Therefore stronger techinal regulations are needed to govern employment tranfer, recognition of service periode, financial right, employee participation and dispute resolution in higher education institutional restructuring.

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ijssh

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Arts Environmental Science Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

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(IJSSH). It is an international refereed journal in english published four monthly (every February, June, and October). The IJSSH is an international peer-reviewed, electronic, online journal in english that provides rapid publication of articles in all areas of the social science, humanity and ...