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Herlambang P. Wiratraman
Education: Bachelor of Law, Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga Indonesia (1994-1998); Master of Arts (MA.) Human Rights and Social Development, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand (2005-2006); Doctorate (Dr.) Faculteit Rechtgeleerdheid, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands (2009-2014)
Academic Associations: Founder and member of Southeast Asian Human Rights Studies Network (SEAHRN); Chairperson of Indonesian Lecturer Association for Human Rights (SEPAHAM Indonesia), 2014-2017; Chairperson of Indonesian Association for Philosophy of Law (AFHI), 2013-2014; Director of the Center for Human Rights Law Studies (HRLS), Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga (2015-2020); Director of Law and Human Rights Program, LP3ES (2020-present); Scientific Committee for ALTERSEA, Observatory of Political Alternatives in Southeast Asia (Centre Asie du Sud-Est) di EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (2020-present)
Teachings: Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Human Rights Law; Legislation Theory; Law and Society, Interdisciplinary Studies of Law; Law and Press Freedom; Sociology of Law
Visiting Research/Lecturer: Australian-Netherlands Research Collaboration Fellow at Asia Research Center (ARC), Murdoch University, Australia (2011); Visiting Professor at Graduate School of International Development (GSID), Nagoya University, Japan (2015); Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Asian Legal Studies, Faculty of Law the National University of Singapore (2017); Visiting Scholar at Sidney Myer Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne (2017); Visiting Lecturer at Faculty of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (2017)
Supervisors: Prof. Adriaan Bedner, Prof. Jan Michiel Otto, Prof. Walden Bello, Dr. Sriprapha Petcharamesree
Phone: (0274) 512781
Address: Constitutional Law Department, Room A.IV.12, Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Jalan Sosio Yustisia Bulaksumur No.1, Sleman, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta 55281
Academic Associations: Founder and member of Southeast Asian Human Rights Studies Network (SEAHRN); Chairperson of Indonesian Lecturer Association for Human Rights (SEPAHAM Indonesia), 2014-2017; Chairperson of Indonesian Association for Philosophy of Law (AFHI), 2013-2014; Director of the Center for Human Rights Law Studies (HRLS), Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga (2015-2020); Director of Law and Human Rights Program, LP3ES (2020-present); Scientific Committee for ALTERSEA, Observatory of Political Alternatives in Southeast Asia (Centre Asie du Sud-Est) di EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (2020-present)
Teachings: Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Human Rights Law; Legislation Theory; Law and Society, Interdisciplinary Studies of Law; Law and Press Freedom; Sociology of Law
Visiting Research/Lecturer: Australian-Netherlands Research Collaboration Fellow at Asia Research Center (ARC), Murdoch University, Australia (2011); Visiting Professor at Graduate School of International Development (GSID), Nagoya University, Japan (2015); Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Asian Legal Studies, Faculty of Law the National University of Singapore (2017); Visiting Scholar at Sidney Myer Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne (2017); Visiting Lecturer at Faculty of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (2017)
Supervisors: Prof. Adriaan Bedner, Prof. Jan Michiel Otto, Prof. Walden Bello, Dr. Sriprapha Petcharamesree
Phone: (0274) 512781
Address: Constitutional Law Department, Room A.IV.12, Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Jalan Sosio Yustisia Bulaksumur No.1, Sleman, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta 55281
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Meijersreeks; MI-239; ISBN: 9789462037335
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/30106
This article analyzes press freedom during the post-Soeharto era using the rule of law point of view. It aims to questions whether these changes really guarantee freedom of press in reality. Also analyzed is whether changes in governance and judiciary system can effectively realize the freedom of the press, especially in relation to democratization and human rights protection. This article, however, assumes that the law system and law enforcement are not really effective. Therefore, it simply inquiries whether freedom of press in Indonesia during the post-Soeharto era has really brought about a better and freer environment than that of the Suharto era.
This paper begins with a short overview on freedom of press in the early parts of the independence time (1945-1949), during Soekarno’s regime (1949-1967), and during Soeharto rule (1967-1998). Then, this paper continues to analyze freedom of press during the post-Soeharto era.
This thesis attempts to deconstruct mainstream discourse and practice of good governance in Indonesia and criticize its connection with donor-driven legal reform issues which are importantly assessed by using a human rights perspective. By deconstructing the presence and absence of the World Bank’s projects of good governance and legal reform in Indonesia, it will picture legisprudence and its legal dynamic between text and context, particularly in assessing legislation-based human rights violations. This study uses a critical legal studies method, and focuses on labor legal reform as a neo-liberal project. Interviews and several focus group discussions were used by involving about 40 people, and it was conducted in Jakarta, Surabaya and Sidoarjo.
The findings of this study indicate that the World Bank projects on good governance systematically hegemonized and softly hijacked state and non-state institutions in Indonesia, particularly through bridge institutions which mystified the power asymmetry. These institutions have reproduced ‘truth’ and ‘imperatives projects’ under loan conditionalities, especially under a legal framework for development and its doctrine of rule of law. By analyzing three waves of labor legal reform in Indonesia post crisis (1997-2006), the World Bank has dominated the discourse of good governance and its legal reform.
The absence of this discourse is the issue of state obligation under a human rights framework which is shifted to good governance. Good governance favors a market friendly strategy, or in the case of labor, so called ‘labor market flexibility’. Labor market flexibility hugely impacts the deprivation of labor rights, especially on the issue of outsourcing, liberal minimum wage, long-term contract workers, and restraining the role of the state in labor dispute mechanism. In the legisprudence perspective, legal reforms are found as tools to legitimize systematic human rights violations through legislation projects. This thesis deconstructs a ‘market friendly human rights paradigm’ under the flag of good governance and legal reform.
Thesis was selected to be published into a book, published by OHRSD-Mahidol: Bangkok, 2007
Dalam konteks demikian, pemerintah Indonesia yang mengedepankan porsi pembangunan selama Orde Baru justru ”terjebak” dalam paradigma perekonomian tersebut, sehingga dapat dikatakan sebagai ”korban” kapitalisme (developmentalism). Namun perlu dicatat, bahwa korban yang sebenarnya (dalam kondisi termajinalkan) dan jumlahnya mencapai jutaan manusia adalah buruh. Buruhlah yang mengalami nasib tragis dengan upah yang sedemikian rendah, sedangkan disisi lain tingkat kebutuhan hidup mengalami peningkatan yang cukup pesat.
Berpijak dalam realitas ini, penulis – melalui skripsi ini - mengkritisi sejauh mana tingkat relevan secara yuridis kebijakan penangguhan upah yang diterapkan dalam Permenaker Nomor PER-03/MEN/1997, terutama berkaitan dengan kebijakan politik hukum perburuhan dengan paradigma perekonomian Indonesia diatas.
Salah satu kesimpulan penelitian dalam skripsi ini: peraturan upah buruh di Indonesia masih menunjukkan adanya peraturan yang merugikan kepentingan buruh, yakni Kepmenaker Nomor KEP-03/MEN/1997 yang memberikan peluang kepada perusahaan untuk tidak membayar kepentingan Upah Minimum Regional yang baru, atau membayar dibawah ketentuan Upah Minimum Regional. Ini merupakan pelanggaran hak asasi manusia yang dilegalkan (legalized human rights violation).
Meijersreeks; MI-239; ISBN: 9789462037335
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/30106
This article analyzes press freedom during the post-Soeharto era using the rule of law point of view. It aims to questions whether these changes really guarantee freedom of press in reality. Also analyzed is whether changes in governance and judiciary system can effectively realize the freedom of the press, especially in relation to democratization and human rights protection. This article, however, assumes that the law system and law enforcement are not really effective. Therefore, it simply inquiries whether freedom of press in Indonesia during the post-Soeharto era has really brought about a better and freer environment than that of the Suharto era.
This paper begins with a short overview on freedom of press in the early parts of the independence time (1945-1949), during Soekarno’s regime (1949-1967), and during Soeharto rule (1967-1998). Then, this paper continues to analyze freedom of press during the post-Soeharto era.
This thesis attempts to deconstruct mainstream discourse and practice of good governance in Indonesia and criticize its connection with donor-driven legal reform issues which are importantly assessed by using a human rights perspective. By deconstructing the presence and absence of the World Bank’s projects of good governance and legal reform in Indonesia, it will picture legisprudence and its legal dynamic between text and context, particularly in assessing legislation-based human rights violations. This study uses a critical legal studies method, and focuses on labor legal reform as a neo-liberal project. Interviews and several focus group discussions were used by involving about 40 people, and it was conducted in Jakarta, Surabaya and Sidoarjo.
The findings of this study indicate that the World Bank projects on good governance systematically hegemonized and softly hijacked state and non-state institutions in Indonesia, particularly through bridge institutions which mystified the power asymmetry. These institutions have reproduced ‘truth’ and ‘imperatives projects’ under loan conditionalities, especially under a legal framework for development and its doctrine of rule of law. By analyzing three waves of labor legal reform in Indonesia post crisis (1997-2006), the World Bank has dominated the discourse of good governance and its legal reform.
The absence of this discourse is the issue of state obligation under a human rights framework which is shifted to good governance. Good governance favors a market friendly strategy, or in the case of labor, so called ‘labor market flexibility’. Labor market flexibility hugely impacts the deprivation of labor rights, especially on the issue of outsourcing, liberal minimum wage, long-term contract workers, and restraining the role of the state in labor dispute mechanism. In the legisprudence perspective, legal reforms are found as tools to legitimize systematic human rights violations through legislation projects. This thesis deconstructs a ‘market friendly human rights paradigm’ under the flag of good governance and legal reform.
Thesis was selected to be published into a book, published by OHRSD-Mahidol: Bangkok, 2007
Dalam konteks demikian, pemerintah Indonesia yang mengedepankan porsi pembangunan selama Orde Baru justru ”terjebak” dalam paradigma perekonomian tersebut, sehingga dapat dikatakan sebagai ”korban” kapitalisme (developmentalism). Namun perlu dicatat, bahwa korban yang sebenarnya (dalam kondisi termajinalkan) dan jumlahnya mencapai jutaan manusia adalah buruh. Buruhlah yang mengalami nasib tragis dengan upah yang sedemikian rendah, sedangkan disisi lain tingkat kebutuhan hidup mengalami peningkatan yang cukup pesat.
Berpijak dalam realitas ini, penulis – melalui skripsi ini - mengkritisi sejauh mana tingkat relevan secara yuridis kebijakan penangguhan upah yang diterapkan dalam Permenaker Nomor PER-03/MEN/1997, terutama berkaitan dengan kebijakan politik hukum perburuhan dengan paradigma perekonomian Indonesia diatas.
Salah satu kesimpulan penelitian dalam skripsi ini: peraturan upah buruh di Indonesia masih menunjukkan adanya peraturan yang merugikan kepentingan buruh, yakni Kepmenaker Nomor KEP-03/MEN/1997 yang memberikan peluang kepada perusahaan untuk tidak membayar kepentingan Upah Minimum Regional yang baru, atau membayar dibawah ketentuan Upah Minimum Regional. Ini merupakan pelanggaran hak asasi manusia yang dilegalkan (legalized human rights violation).