Jakarta, September 19-29, 2022
The Indonesia-Netherlands Legal Update (INLU) is a biennial event, building on the success of the INLU in November 2014 in the Hague and the INLU in January 2018 and December 2019 in Jakarta. The INLU is designed as an open platform of panels where policy makers, experts, researchers, and practitioners from Indonesia and the Netherlands meet to present and discuss topics and updates in the field of rule of law in both countries.
INLU is aimed to highlight achievements of the long standing bilateral cooperation as well as to identify how the relationship between Indonesia and the Netherlands can strategically strengthen and develop both institutional relations and individual capacity, as well as to address new and current problems in upholding the rule of law.
The INLU 2022 takes place on 19-29 September in Jakarta on the theme “Digitalization, Innovation and sustaining legal relations.” Under this theme, INLU will also align with the Indonesian National Planning Document for Law Reform (RPJMN) as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a globally established results framework, relevant both for Indonesia and the Netherlands.
The first day of the INLU will be organized as a public symposium and a panel discussion on restorative justice, featuring government officials and other relevant policy makers for a larger audience (300+ participants). The opening is followed by two weeks worth of substantive panel workshops in smaller groups. The panels are also an opportunity for participants from both countries to exchange knowledge, share experiences, and develop networks within their more specific niche of work. INLU2022 will be concluded by a closing ceremony with heads of judicial institutions of bilateral cooperation.
Background
The Netherlands and Indonesia have a longstanding relationship in rule of law cooperation. The two countries’ legal systems share several commonalities in substantive law and legal structure which facilitates the comparison of legal practices and experiences as well as an effective exchange of information. Over the years Indonesian and Dutch legal institutions, researchers and practitioners have been actively collaborating in the legal sectors through research, technical collaboration, and cooperation projects. An extensive network throughout Dutch and Indonesian academia, civil society, the private sector, and government have developed, including hundreds of Indonesian alumni who studied law or
other legal studies in the Netherlands.
In November 2014, the Indonesian Working Group of the Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law (KPSRL) organized the first Indonesia Netherlands Legal Update (INLU) in The Hague, the Netherlands. The conference looked at trends and developments in both Indonesia and the Netherlands; and identified themes for post-2015 legal cooperation
The discussions during the first INLU demonstrated that many of the fundamental issues in the Indonesian rule of law reform process, such as public trust in legal institutions, access to justice for common citizens, and the quality of legal education, are part of the debate in Indonesia as well as in the Netherlands and are therefore attractive subjects for further exchange of ideas and experiences and future cooperation.
In January 2018, the second Legal Update was organized in Jakarta with great success. The conference was attended by three hundred participants and honored by the presence of the Indonesian Minister of Justice and Human Rights, the Indonesian Minister for National Development Planning, as well as the President of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands (HogeRaad) and the Head of the Indonesian Supreme
Court (Mahkamah Agung). The conference identified several new challenges and key issues for future cooperation, such as cybercrime, which in due course informed further exchanges and operational
collaboration in research, education, and knowledge programming.
In December 2019, the third INLU conference was organized in Jakarta with the main theme “Law, Legal Education and the Circular Economy” and an emphasis on “Access to Justice.” As in this year’s conference,
reference was made to the Indonesian National Planning Document for Law Reform (RPJMN) as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The various topics in the field of law and legal education that were discussed in INLU 2019 were based on the day-to-day experiences of participating institutions from Indonesia and the Netherlands, ensuring their practical relevance. As previous INLU editions, the public
symposium and panel discussions of INLU 2019 were well attended.
INLU2022 will focus on the role of digitalization and innovation within the justice sector and the challenges that both rule of law systems in Indonesia and the Netherlands have faced during the global Pandemic. Panels are organized on the topics of restorative justice, probation service, environmental law and climate change, business law & human rights, economic reform, private equity & debt enforcement, access to remedy, the ombudsman & access to justice, effective judicial argumentation, and new legal mechanisms at the supreme court. Additionally, INLU 2022 will also review the challenges and suggestions of the previous updates whilst focusing on how to sustain legal regulations beyond donor funded projects.
Panel Presentation Material
PANEL 2: Using Administrative Law Enforcement to Halt Environmental Pollution and Damage Effectively
PANEL 4: THE VALUE OF PROBATION SERVICE
PANEL 7: Blue Environmental Law and Justice
PANEL 8: BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
PANEL 9: PROSPECT OF ECONOMIC LAW REFORM TO PREPARE THE POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY
PANEL 10: PRIVATE EQUITY & DEBT ENFORCEMENT
PANEL 11: Access to Remedy- Loss of Housing