LEGAL CULTURE IN MULTICULTURALISM AND ITS ROLE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN INDONESIA

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  • Agus Suprijanto

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Multiculturalism in Indonesia can be considered not only as the ancestor’s heritage that
should be preserved but should also be the main asset in the attempt of nation building.
However, incapability of optimizing multiculturalism can be largest constraint that foils
the achievement of development objective. In this case, legal culture becomes the main
key to utilizing multiculturalism as the main key to development. Legal culture made as a
part of Indonesian legal system will make the society feels being the part of the law itself
and willing to implement the rules of law contained because it is the law that had been
institutionalized in the society’s social life previously. The quality of legal culture highly
determined the law enforce in Indonesia; for that reason the better the integration of legal
culture into legal system in Indonesia, the better will be the quality of law enforcement,
because basically through a good legal culture, the individual law enforcers will have
high legal culture that will implement all rules of law without the will to break it
occurring frequently so far. A high-quality legal culture will make judicature a legal
process that prioritizing justice enforcement, law certainty, justice, social benefit, and
social empowerment through the judge’s verdict.

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