Focus and Scope

The Indonesian Journal of Economic Analysis of Law (ISSN: XXXX-XXXX) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by JUSTISIA GLOBAL EDUKASI in an online format twice a year, in February and August. The journal provides a scholarly platform for interdisciplinary research examining the relationship between law, economics, regulation, institutions, and public policy, with particular emphasis on the Indonesian legal and economic context. 

The journal focuses on the application of economic reasoning, institutional analysis, and interdisciplinary approaches to understand how laws, regulations, legal institutions, judicial decisions, and public policies influence economic behavior, resource allocation, market structures, social welfare, and national development. It seeks to promote rigorous scholarship on the ways in which legal rules and institutions shape incentives, transaction costs, competition, investment, distribution of resources, economic efficiency, equity, and sustainable development.

As an Indonesian-focused journal, The Indonesian Journal of Economic Analysis of Law prioritizes research that engages directly with Indonesia's legal system, regulatory institutions, economic policies, and socio-economic realities. Nevertheless, the journal welcomes comparative, regional, and international perspectives where such approaches contribute to a deeper understanding of Indonesian legal-economic issues or provide relevant lessons for Indonesia and other developing economies, particularly within Southeast Asia. The journal welcomes doctrinal, normative, empirical, socio-legal, comparative, interdisciplinary, and law-and-economics research. Contributions may employ qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, institutional, behavioral, or comparative approaches, provided that they demonstrate clear theoretical foundations, methodological rigor, and meaningful contributions to legal-economic scholarship.

 

Areas of Focus

The journal's scope includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  1. Economic Analysis of Law and Regulation
    Studies applying economic theories and analytical frameworks to legislation, regulations, judicial decisions, legal institutions, and regulatory policies in Indonesia, including issues of efficiency, incentives, transaction costs, externalities, risk allocation, and distributional consequences.

  2. Indonesian Business Law and Corporate Governance
    Research on company law, corporate governance, corporate accountability, shareholder protection, directors' duties, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, insolvency, corporate compliance, and the economic consequences of business regulation.

  3. Investment Law and Economic Development
    Studies concerning domestic and foreign investment, investment protection, investment licensing, regulatory certainty, public-private partnerships, infrastructure development, investment incentives, and the relationship between investment regulation and Indonesia's economic growth.

  4. Competition Law and Market Regulation
    Research on competition policy, antitrust regulation, monopolies, oligopolies, cartels, abuse of dominant position, mergers and acquisitions, consumer welfare, market power, and the role of competition authorities in promoting efficient and fair markets.

  5. Taxation, Fiscal Law, and Regional Autonomy
    Studies examining tax law, fiscal policy, public revenue, tax compliance, tax incentives, fiscal decentralization, regional taxation, intergovernmental fiscal relations, and the economic implications of Indonesia's regional autonomy framework.

  6. Natural Resources Law and Economic Justice
    Research on the legal and economic governance of land, forests, minerals, energy, fisheries, water, and other natural resources, including resource allocation, property rights, benefit-sharing, community rights, environmental externalities, and distributive justice.

  7. Digital Economy, Fintech, and E-Commerce Regulation
    Studies addressing the legal and economic implications of digital transformation, financial technology, digital payments, online platforms, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, data governance, digital assets, cybersecurity regulation, consumer protection, and competition in digital markets.

  8. Labor Law and Industrial Relations
    Research on employment regulation, wages, labor market institutions, employment contracts, social protection, industrial relations, dispute resolution, worker rights, labor mobility, informal employment, and the economic consequences of labor legislation.

  9. Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Cooperatives, and Inclusive Economy
    Studies concerning the legal framework governing MSMEs and cooperatives, access to finance, market access, formalization, entrepreneurship, regulatory burdens, economic inclusion, and policies designed to strengthen participation in national and regional economic development.

  10. State-Owned Enterprises and Public Sector Governance
    Research on the legal and economic governance of state-owned enterprises, public corporations, privatization, public accountability, public procurement, public service obligations, corporate performance, and the role of state-owned enterprises in Indonesia's economic development.

  11. Maritime Economy, Trade, and Economic Regulation
    Studies on maritime law and the blue economy, shipping, fisheries, ports, logistics, international trade, customs, regional connectivity, marine resources, and regulatory frameworks affecting Indonesia's position within regional and global trade networks.

  12. Environmental Regulation and Sustainable Development
    Research examining the relationship between environmental law, economic activity, sustainability, climate policy, carbon markets, environmental taxation, natural resource management, green investment, energy transition, and intergenerational justice.

  13. Law, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policies
    Studies exploring how legal institutions and public policies influence poverty reduction, inequality, social protection, access to economic opportunities, basic services, social welfare, and the distribution of economic resources.

  14. Empirical Legal Studies of Courts and Legal Institutions
    Empirical research investigating judicial behavior, court performance, dispute resolution, enforcement of legal rules, regulatory institutions, legal compliance, access to justice, and the economic consequences of judicial and institutional decision-making.

  15. Comparative Economic Law in Southeast Asia
    Comparative studies examining Indonesian legal-economic institutions in relation to other Southeast Asian and developing countries, including comparative research on regulation, investment, competition, taxation, digital markets, natural resources, trade, labor markets, and institutional governance.

Interdisciplinary and Emerging Issues

The journal also encourages submissions addressing emerging legal-economic issues arising from technological, social, environmental, and institutional transformation. These may include, among others, artificial intelligence and regulation, platform economy, digital competition, climate change and carbon governance, energy transition, sustainable finance, economic resilience, supply-chain regulation, financial inclusion, data economy, blockchain and digital assets, public-sector digitalization, and the regulation of emerging technologies.

Particular consideration is given to research that connects legal analysis with broader questions of economic efficiency, social welfare, distributive justice, institutional quality, regulatory effectiveness, sustainability, and inclusive development. Studies that critically examine tensions between efficiency and equity, economic growth and environmental protection, market freedom and regulatory intervention, or national interests and international economic integration are especially encouraged.

Geographic and Comparative Orientation

Although the journal's primary focus is Indonesia, it recognizes that Indonesian legal and economic developments are increasingly interconnected with regional and global systems. Accordingly, the journal welcomes research involving ASEAN, Southeast Asia, developing economies, and relevant international legal and economic frameworks, particularly where comparative analysis provides insights into Indonesian law, institutions, and policy.

Comparative submissions should demonstrate a clear connection to the journal's core focus and should contribute to understanding Indonesian legal-economic challenges, institutional reform, or policy development rather than merely presenting descriptive comparisons between jurisdictions.

Methodological Scope

The journal welcomes diverse methodological approaches, including:

  • Doctrinal and normative legal research;

  • Law and economics analysis;

  • Empirical legal research;

  • Socio-legal research;

  • Quantitative and statistical analysis;

  • Qualitative and institutional research;

  • Comparative legal and economic analysis;

  • Policy analysis and regulatory impact assessment;

  • Case studies of courts, regulators, markets, and legal institutions; and

  • Interdisciplinary research combining law with economics, political science, public policy, sociology, business, finance, environmental studies, technology, or related disciplines.

Regardless of methodology, submitted manuscripts should demonstrate academic rigor, methodological transparency, analytical depth, and a clearly articulated contribution to the existing literature.

Scholarly Contribution

The Indonesian Journal of Economic Analysis of Law seeks to strengthen critical, evidence-based, and inclusive scholarship on the interaction between law and economic development in Indonesia. The journal particularly values research that moves beyond purely descriptive legal analysis by examining the economic effects, institutional consequences, behavioral incentives, social implications, and policy outcomes of legal rules and regulatory interventions.

The journal aims to serve scholars, researchers, legal practitioners, policymakers, judges, regulators, economists, business professionals, and other stakeholders interested in the development of Indonesian law and its relationship with economic governance. Through rigorous peer review and adherence to recognized standards of research integrity and publication ethics, the journal seeks to contribute to both Indonesian and international academic discourse on law, economics, regulation, and sustainable development.

Submissions should therefore demonstrate a substantive connection to the journal's central themes and offer an original contribution to understanding how legal systems and economic institutions can support efficient markets, effective governance, social justice, inclusive economic development, and sustainable national transformation.