Defending Legal Freedoms in Indonesia

The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation and Cause Lawyering in an Age of Democratic Decline
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-78245-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Routledge Law in Asia

Defending Legal Freedoms in Indonesia provides fresh insights into how cause lawyers navigate political and institutional change, by presenting and analysing the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), the oldest and most influential legal and human rights organisation in Indonesia.

Based on rich ethnographic research, this book charts the developments of the organisation since its founding in 1970, its contribution to the ending of the authoritarian, military-backed New Order (1966-1998), its relative decline in the years following Indonesia’s democratisation and its revival in recent years as Indonesian democracy and human rights come under threat. The author examines the tactics the organisation has used, including show trials and working alongside grassroots communities, organising them and educating them about their rights. It highlights how this organisation flourished more under an authoritarian regime than under democracy and how its present, prominent, adversarial-political version of cause lawyering is playing a leading role in civil society resisting further erosion of democracy and human rights. The book addresses recent democratic erosion under President Joko Widodo, and documents pivotal moments in Indonesia’s contemporary history, such as the ‘Reform Corrupted’ mass demonstrations in 2019, illuminating how democracy shrinks, and how lawyers push back.

The first book on Indonesia’s crucially important cause lawyering, activist lawyers’ group, this book will be of interest to researchers in Asian Law, Indonesian Studies. It is also an essential point of reference for future research in public lawyering in Asia.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mann, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Berufs- und Gebührenrecht freie Berufe Rechtsanwälte und Notare
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface and acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Glossary

           

PART ONE: CAUSE LAWYERING AND THE BIRTH OF THE LEGAL AID MOVEMENT IN INDONESIA

 

Chapter 1: Introduction: Cause lawyering and democratic change

 

Chapter 2: The making of a ‘locomotive of democracy’: Cause lawyers under Soeharto’s New Order

 

 

PART TWO: CAUSE LAWYERING IN A TIME OF DEMOCRATIC REFORM AND REGRESSION

 

Democratic reform and regression: Introduction to Part Two

 

Chapter 3: Transitions and troubles: Challenges post-Soeharto

 

Chapter 4: Mobilising the law: New opportunities, new strategies

 

Chapter 5: Movement building: community organising and legal empowerment

 

Chapter 6: Accommodation and opposition: Engaging with the state

 

PART THREE: REVIVAL

 

Chapter 7: The ‘revival’ of structural legal aid and return as an oppositional force

 

Chapter 8: Conclusion

 

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Mann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in the University of Copenhagen, Denmark