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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.
Arjuna Subject : Ilmu Sosial - Hukum
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Digital Rights and Criminal Law Reform in Indonesia: Addressing Surveillance, Data Protection, and Cybercrime Governance Amran Amran; Muh. Tahir
Journal of Progressive Law and Legal Studies Том 4 № 01 (2026): Journal of Progressive Law and Legal Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59653/jplls.v4i01.2246

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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.
Judicial Reasoning on Asset Forfeiture as the Satisfaction of Substitute Compensation Aulia, Hafiz; Ismansyah, Ismansyah; Mulyati, Nani
Journal of Progressive Law and Legal Studies Том 4 № 02 (2026): Journal of Progressive Law and Legal Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59653/jplls.v4i02.2385

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The eradication of corruption in Indonesia faces a critical shift from retributive paradigms toward restorative justice and state financial recovery. This research examines Supreme Court Decision No. 4985 K/Pid.Sus/2022, which reflects an anomalous disparity between recovery ethos and procedural positivism. The study analyzes the ratio decidendi underlying the court’s rejection of seized physical assets as restitution and evaluates its strategic implications for the national asset forfeiture architecture. Employing a normative-doctrinal methodology, the analysis draws on Legal Purposivism and Integrative Jurisprudence. Findings reveal that the judiciary’s hyper-formalistic interpretation prioritized mathematical certainty over legal utility, paradoxically returning seized vehicles to the convict. This forced the Prosecution to resort to extra-procedural “bureaucratic gymnastics” to secure the assets, thereby exposing systemic inefficiencies. Macro-statistically, the current conviction-based regime yields a negligible recovery rate relative to the state's absolute losses of IDR 28.4 trillion in 2023. Significantly, this research contributes to criminal law jurisprudence by deconstructing the doctrinal impasse of the conventional in personam framework, providing a robust theoretical foundation for systemic legal reform. It concludes that transitioning to an in rem or Non-Conviction Based Asset Forfeiture mechanism, as mandated by UNCAC Article 54, is an absolute imperative. Accelerating the Asset Forfeiture Bill will transcend rigid procedural dogmatism, ensuring efficient asset recovery and liberating the state from systemic institutional failures.