CILIS 2023 Reading Group

2023 Reading Group

CILIS Reading Group in 2023 was curated by Nurul Azizah Zayzda.

14 June 2023

Indonesian Legal Scholarship and Jurisprudence as an Obstacle for Transplanting Legal Institutions (2013), by Adriaan Bedner.

12 July 2023

"Pluralism and the Ideal of Legal Nationalism", (2015), by Ratno Lukito. This article is the Chapter 2 of Legal Pluralism in Indonesia: Bridging the Unbridgeable.

10 August 2023
"Governance and Public Spending", Chapter 8 of Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism and the State in Indonesia, (2019) by Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot. Participants are also encouraged to read or skim Chapter 3 of this book for more historical context.
Both authors have produced substantive works on patron-client relations in Indonesia, with Aspinall's focus mainly on Indonesian democracy and elections, while Berenschot focuses on citizenship and public services. In this chapter, they demonstrate how cultivating clientelist relationships becomes crucial for citizens when formal laws and procedures are irrelevant to their access to welfare.
29 August 2023
Chapter 4, 'Bureaucracy, Reason, and Ritual' from Fluid Iron: State Formation in Southeast Asia, (2002) by Tony Day.
7 September 2023
In this article, Butt discusses how Indonesia's new criminal code lacks both decolonising and democratic aspects. Simon Butt is a Professor of Indonesian Law at the University of Sydney and has been researching various topics on Indonesian law, including constitutional, criminal, civil, human rights, etc.
19 Oktober 2023
In this article, she discusses in-depth how the 'Omnibus' Law on Job Creation and its implementing regulations reflect the shift of labour regulation in Indonesia's legal hierarchy and how they responded to the previous Constitutional Court reviews.
30 November 2023

Thesis chapter by Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun.

Rafiqa graduated from Melbourne Law School's PhD program. She has worked and published extensively on blasphemy laws and illiberal legalism in Indonesia.