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Journal of Progressive Law and Legal Studies
ISSN : -     EISSN : 29869145     DOI : https://doi.org/10.59653/jplls
Journal of Progressive Law and Legal Studies (JPLLS) is an online bi-annual journal with a summer and winter edition. The Journal emphasises creating an open-access platform to research around socio-legal topics and promoting interdisciplinary research entailing the detailed study of law with other disciplines in the contemporary era. JPLLS maintains a high standard of quality as the manuscripts received at the JPLLS go through a blind double peer review and a plagiarism check where only the content with a plagiarism rate of below 20% is selected for final publication. All academicians, research scholars, lawyers, and law students can submit original manuscripts of articles, book reviews, case comments, and legislative comments relating to a recent development in law and legal studies.
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Digital Rights and Criminal Law Reform in Indonesia: Addressing Surveillance, Data Protection, and Cybercrime Governance Amran, Amran; Tahir, Muh.
Journal of Progressive Law and Legal Studies Том 4 № 01 (2026): Journal of Progressive Law and Legal Studies
Publisher : PT. Riset Press International

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Abstract

The rapid digitalization of contemporary societies has intensified tensions between criminal law enforcement and the protection of digital rights, particularly in emerging democracies. This study examines the structural challenges of safeguarding digital rights within Indonesia’s criminal law framework and identifies necessary reform pathways. Using a qualitative normative doctrinal approach structured as a single-country case study, the research analyses key statutory instruments, including the Electronic Information and Transactions Law and the 2022 Personal Data Protection Law, alongside relevant legal doctrines and comparative regulatory models. The findings reveal five interrelated structural constraints: regulatory lag, tension between criminalization and fundamental rights, doctrinal rigidity, evidentiary and enforcement limitations, and institutional as well as digital literacy deficits. The study identifies a normative asymmetry in which speech-related criminal enforcement has evolved more assertively than privacy protection mechanisms. It argues that Indonesia represents a hybrid statutory model of digital governance, distinct from the European constitutionalized regulatory approach and the United States’ intermediary-immunity paradigm. Effective reform requires harmonized legislation, proportional criminalization, institutional modernization, and rights-oriented judicial interpretation. By reconceptualizing digital rights protection as a structural transformation of criminal law, this study expands digital governance theory beyond Euro-American binaries and highlights the distinctive regulatory pathways of Global South democracies.