The Role of Legal Empowerment Based Advocacy for Rural Communities on Structural Social Inequality

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15294/ijals.v5i2.68240

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Rifqi Anugrah Tama
Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6546-4103
Mohamad Ikrom
Faculty of Law, Universitas Riau
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4491-6881
Edward Dixon
School of Business and Management, The University of the West Indies, Five Islands Campus
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2546-6312
Ngaboawaji Daniel Nte
Department of Intelligence and Security Studies, Novena University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1331-3511
Siti Hafsyah Idris
Faculty of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6480-3828

Abstract

Indonesia is a portrait of a legal state, the rights of the people have been protected by the Constitution, contained in the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. Substantially regarding advocacy assistance to the community is regulated in Article 28 of the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia "Everyone has the right to recognition, guarantee, protection, and legal certainty that is fair and equality before the law". In order to realize what has been mandated by Constitution, the government then issued a Law on Legal Aid, namely Law Number 16 of 2011 which was later referred to as the Law on Legal Aid. This research is specifically to analyze the application provision of legal aid given the role of the advocacy party legal Empowerment Based for Rural Communities Against Structural Social Inequality. This is the extent of the government's attention to upholding justice and eradicating structural social inequalities in rural communities. Viewed from the point of view of the method used, this type of research/approach is a type of normative legal research. The Normative Approach is research that looks at positive legal aspects as well as documents and statutory regulations. Also called doctrinal legal research, namely legal research that uses secondary data.

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Tama, R. A., Ikrom, M., Dixon, E., Nte, N. D., & Idris, S. H. (2023). The Role of Legal Empowerment Based Advocacy for Rural Communities on Structural Social Inequality. Indonesian Journal of Advocacy and Legal Services, 5(2), 161-180. https://doi.org/10.15294/ijals.v5i2.68240
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Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Discourse of Fair Law Enforcement and Advocacy: A Quest for Justice among Marginalized Communities
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