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Indonesian Journal of Linguistics and Legal Discourse
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Indonesian Journal of Linguistics and Legal Discourse is a double blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes original research articles and critical studies at the intersection of linguistics, law, and legal discourse. This journal is published quarterly as a platform for the dissemination of theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary findings that examine how language operates within legal systems, institutions, and practices. It addresses a broad range of topics, including but not limited to legal discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, courtroom interaction, legislative and policy language, legal pragmatics, language and power in law, judicial reasoning, legal translation and interpreting, and language-centered approaches to law and justice in social and institutional contexts.
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Whose testimony is believed? linguistic credibility, gendered narratives, and institutional power in Indonesian sexual violence judgments Ghania Maham
Indonesian Journal of Linguistics and Legal Discourse Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Artificial intelligence, linguistic vulnerability, and digital justice in Indon
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijll.v1i2.922

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Background: Sexual violence adjudication in Indonesia increasingly depends not only on legal proof, but also on how courts linguistically construct whose testimony becomes believable, doubtful, admissible, or insufficient. Objective: This study examines how linguistic credibility, gendered narrative positioning, and institutional power are textualised in Indonesian sexual violence judgments. Method: Using a qualitative legal discourse design, this study analyses 11 judgment-related text units drawn from a public corpus of court judgments and judgment-linked legal documents, combining forensic linguistic analysis, feminist legal theory, and critical discourse analysis. Results: The findings show that credibility is produced through judicial revoicing, evidentiary sequencing, corroborative uptake, procedural framing, and legal thresholding. Victim testimony is often made persuasive when attached to recognised signs of vulnerability, medical or psychological corroboration, object evidence, or institutional validation, while disbelief is expressed through explicit judicial formulations of doubt and insufficiency. Implication: Institutional power operates by ranking victim testimony, defendant denial, witness statements, expert reports, documentary proof, and statutory elements within a hierarchy of legal intelligibility. Novelty: This study contributes a discourse-based account of testimonial belief in Indonesian sexual violence adjudication by shifting attention from whether testimony is accepted to how credibility is linguistically and institutionally made possible.
Speaking law in plain Indonesian: measuring whether automated legal simplification improves public understanding without distorting legal meaning Aisyah Deby Damayanti
Indonesian Journal of Linguistics and Legal Discourse Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Artificial intelligence, linguistic vulnerability, and digital justice in Indon
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijll.v1i2.923

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Background: As Indonesian citizens increasingly encounter law through digital portals, public-service notices, regulatory explanations, and automated interfaces, legal communication must become intelligible without weakening the normative precision that gives law its institutional force. Objective: This study examines whether automated plain-Indonesian simplification can improve public understanding of legal texts while preserving their legal meaning. Method: Using a paired-corpus design, this study analyses 21 excerpts from 18 verified public legal documents, comparing original legal-Indonesian passages with automated simplified versions through linguistic burden analysis, simplification-operation coding, and legal-meaning preservation assessment. Results: The findings show that legal difficulty is driven less by technical vocabulary than by embedded conditions, nominalisation, passive agency, cross-referential dependency, and dense modality. Simplification works most effectively when it sequences legal conditions, restores visible agency, explains necessary legal terms, and unpacks abstract legal processes without changing rights, duties, prohibitions, exceptions, procedures, or sanctions. Implication: However, simplification becomes legally fragile when it compresses scope, shifts institutional responsibility, weakens modal force, or omits qualifying conditions. Novelty: The novelty of this study lies in its dual evaluation model, which treats automated legal simplification as a constrained transformation requiring both accessibility gain and legal-fidelity preservation.

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