Focus and Scope
Focus and Scope
The SASI Journal starts from the December 2025 edition with a change in focus and scope, namely articles that focus on issues of Legal Pluralism in indigenous peoples, with a special emphasis on the role of Customary Law and Local Wisdom.
Focus
SASI is an open-access and peer-reviewed journal, managed and published by the Faculty of Law, Universitas Pattimura. Aims to provide a platform to share insights, innovations, and critical approaches from the results of legal research in Indonesia and across countries, focusing on examining and exploring legal norms and the theoretical and practical implications of the phenomenon of Legal Pluralism in indigenous peoples, with special emphasis on the role of Customary Law and Local Wisdom, on the regulation of social relations and indigenous peoples' activities, based on values, norms, and traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation.
Scope
The scope of the SASI journal covers a wide range of aspects and contexts related to Legal Pluralism in Indigenous Peoples, including but not limited to:
- Legal Pluralism Theory: A study of various theories and concepts of legal pluralism, including a comparison between positivistic, naturalistic, anthropological, and sociological approaches to legal pluralism.
- Customary Law and Local Wisdom: An in-depth analysis of the role, status, legitimacy, and development of customary law and local wisdom in dealing with the influence of state law and globalization. This study covers how local wisdom is the source of norms and dispute resolution mechanisms in society.
- Religious and Community Law: The study of how religious law norms interact, synergize, or conflict with formal and informal legal systems in indigenous peoples' lives.
- Legal Pluralism in Specific Sectors: Research on the manifestation of legal pluralism in specific fields such as family law, inheritance law, land law, environmental law, economic law, and dispute resolution, paying attention to the dynamics of customary law and local wisdom in these sectors.
- Legal System Interaction: An investigation of the mechanisms of interaction, negotiation, and conflict between various legal systems, including the interaction between state law and customary law and local wisdom, as well as the efforts of harmonization or coexistence that occur.
- Legal Pluralism and Human Rights: An analysis of how legal pluralism, including recognition of customary law and local wisdom, affects the protection and fulfillment of human rights, as well as the challenges faced in ensuring justice for all parties.
- Legal Pluralism in Global and Regional Contexts: A comparative study of the phenomenon of legal pluralism in different countries and regions, including the influence of international and regional law on the domestic legal system, as well as how local legal traditions are recognized or ignored in those contexts.
- Public Policy and Legal Pluralism: An evaluation of public policies that are responsive to or ignore the reality of legal pluralism, including recognition of customary law and local wisdom, as well as recommendations for more inclusive policy formulation.
- Legal Pluralism Research Methodology: Development and application of appropriate research methods to examine the complex phenomenon of legal pluralism, especially related to data collection and analysis of customary law and local wisdom.
