Focus And Scope

HERMENEUTIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Hukum publishes high-quality scholarship on law and society with a strong emphasis on hermeneutic approaches to legal texts, practices, and institutions. The journal welcomes doctrinal, socio-legal, empirical, and comparative studies that illuminate how law is interpreted, constructed, and applied in context—particularly within Indonesia, the ASEAN region, and the broader Global South.

Core Areas

  • Legal Theory & Methodology: legal hermeneutics, philosophy of law, interpretive methods, legal reasoning and argumentation.

  • Constitutional & Administrative Law: constitutional rights and adjudication, separation of powers, public administration, good governance.

  • Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure: substantive offenses, penology, victimology, investigations, prosecution, and fair-trial guarantees.

  • Civil Law & Civil Procedure: contract, tort, property, family and inheritance, evidence, enforcement of judgments.

  • Business & Economic Law: corporate law, securities, competition/antitrust, investment, banking/fintech, insolvency.

  • International & Transnational Law: public international law, human rights, humanitarian law, trade, migration, and cross-border dispute resolution.

  • Human Rights & Social Justice: equality, non-discrimination, access to justice, indigenous and vulnerable communities.

  • Islamic Law and Local Legal Traditions: intersections with national law, legal pluralism, and contemporary reform.

  • Law and Technology: data protection, cybersecurity, AI and platform regulation, digital evidence, e-government/e-court.

  • Environmental & Natural Resources Law: climate governance, biodiversity, land and agrarian law, maritime/coastal regulation.

  • Health, Education & Labor Law: public health regulation, medical liability, academic freedom, employment and industrial relations.

  • Dispute Resolution & Legal Institutions: courts and judicial behavior, ADR/mediation/arbitration, prosecution and corrections.

  • Legal Education & Profession: ethics, curriculum and pedagogy, clinical legal education, legal drafting and advocacy.

Article Types

  • Research Articles (empirical, socio-legal, or doctrinal)

  • Review Articles / Systematic Literature Reviews

  • Comparative or Case Analyses / Case Notes

  • Policy and Law Reform Studies

  • Book Reviews (selectively, where they advance scholarly debate)

Methodological Orientation

Submissions may use qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, doctrinal analysis, or comparative techniques, provided they demonstrate clear research questions, rigorous method, and interpretive depth consistent with hermeneutic inquiry.

Audience and Contribution

The journal serves scholars, judges, practitioners, policy-makers, and students. Manuscripts should advance legal knowledge, offer context-sensitive interpretation, and demonstrate originality and relevance to Indonesian and regional/global debates.

Out-of-Scope

Manuscripts that are purely descriptive, lack methodological clarity, constitute opinion pieces without scholarly apparatus, or fall outside legal and law-in-context studies will not be considered.