Bahasa Indonesia Hukum

The Voice of the Law in Transition

Since the early 1970s, legal usage and terminology have been criticized by linguists and, remarkably, by jurists as well. Government measures (language courses, legal dictionaries) have not allayed this criticism. This study exposes two fundamental defects in the government measures and in the criticism itself. Firstly, an approach that sees language as secondary in importance to the conceptual world that is considered law's core business. Secondly, they greatly underestimate the impact of the declining knowledge of Dutch upon the development of Indonesian law language. Consequently, legal training and practice are examined in terms of language and behaviour and conventions, of learning, writing and speaking the languages of the law.

Bahasa Indonesia hukum

On Indonesian legal language and style.

Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs