Access to Justice in Indonesia: How effective is legal Systems in Addressing Land Conflicts and Natural Resources Management?
Speakers
Afrizal
Professor of Sociology at Andalas University, specializing in the study of land conflicts in Indonesia
Ahmad Dhiaulhaq
Postdoctoral Researcher at KITLV Leiden
Asep Yunan Firdaus
Director of Epistema Institute as well as a practicing lawyer.
Norman Jiwan
Associate at Forest Peoples Program and former director of Transformasi untuk Keadilan (TUK) Indonesia
Siti Rahma Mary Herwati
Co-chair for knowledge management at the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Jakarta
Ward Berenschot
Professor in Comparative Political Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and researcher at KITLV Leiden, specializing in the study of politics and civil society in Indonesia and Indonesia
Yance Arizona
PhD researcher at Leiden University (van Vollenhoven Institute) and a former researcher at HuMa and Epistema Institute.
Event Details
Before ‘access to justice’ became a UN sustainable development goal (no. 16), the Indonesian government had already adopted a ‘national strategy for Access to Justice’ (Stranas, in 2008) with the aim of boosting the accessibility of its legal system.
In this panel we discuss and evaluate the effectiveness of these reforms by presenting the results of various research projects on how common Indonesians deal with the legal system. Focusing particularly on conflicts and grievances related to land and natural resource management, we will discuss the role of Indonesian legal system in addressing these grievances. As the Netherlands and Indonesia have a longstanding cooperation in the field of the rule of law, we will also present and discuss the outcomes of a number of recent (research) collaborations in this field. The aim of the panel is to use this discussion of concrete cases to identify the main obstacles for strengthening access to justice in Indonesia, and how these might be addressed. To this end, we will combine short presentations (5 min) with an interactive discussion about these obstacles.
