About the Journal

Jurnal Kajian Pembaruan Hukum publishes comparative, peer-reviewed scholarship on legal reform, with Indonesia and Southeast Asia as its analytical centre of gravity and the wider Global South as its comparative horizon. The journal examines how legal systems in postcolonial and developing jurisdictions reform themselves: how transplanted norms are adapted to local conditions, how the rule of law is contested and rebuilt, and how doctrine, institutions, and social practice interact in the process of change. It favours work that places Indonesian legal developments in dialogue with other jurisdictions and treats reform in the Global South as a serious site of legal theory, not merely as a case study for testing ideas formed elsewhere.

The Editorial Board welcomes original research, comparative analysis, and theoretically grounded case studies across the following areas:

  • economic and commercial law reform, including competition and antitrust law, trade secrets, investment law, and labour protection;
  • law, technology, and digital governance, including blockchain and smart contracts, data regulation, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and digital political participation;
  • constitutional law, democracy, and legislative reform, including constitutional morality, deliberative democracy, and the accountability of elected representatives;
  • environmental and natural-resource law, including environmental criminal liability and the regulation of emerging climate technologies; and
  • the adaptation and transplantation of legal norms, examining how imported frameworks are harmonised, resisted, or reshaped within domestic legal orders.

The journal considers all methodological approaches, from doctrinal and theoretical to comparative and socio-legal. Preference is given to submissions that engage more than one jurisdiction, adopt cross-disciplinary perspectives, or contribute to scholarly debate beyond a single legal system.

New submissions may comprise articles (8,000-12,000 words), notes (4,000-6,000 words), and book reviews (1,000-1,500 words), written in English. Please read the call for new submissions to find detailed information on how to submit your manuscript.

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