The Indonesian Journal of Advocacy and Legal Services records and analyzes the multitude of ways that advocacy by groups, movements and lobbying professionals (including legal professionals) can work to influence policy. It also provides a focal point for significant current discussions about how these specialized interests are mobilized and maintained. The Indonesian Journal of Advocacy and Legal Services ranges widely across the international landscape of laws, politics, and society, identifying the forces, strategies, and tactics that determine policy change. The articles published here reflect a diversity of methodologies. The coverage includes studies that address theoretical issues, reports rigorous empirical work, and presents insight on change agents, their behavior and their impact. In a field long dominated by Indonesian legal science, the journal reflects the widening geographical footprint of advocacy and legal services. Lobbyists have proliferated, and advocacy spending has increased in Indonesia, Southeast Asian, as well as in states, provinces and localities around the world. The Journal synthesizes this territorial expansion with broadened interest in the number and type of advocacy organizations. Also noted is the changing nature of advocates, including multi-national corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and social movements - so divergent from textbook stereotypes of interest groups - that seek to influence public policies. Although the Journal is anchored within legal and political science, it publishes research based in such other disciplines as economics, sociology, psychology, and history. Also covered are social movement scholarship and public affairs, which form important components of the process of competitive advocacy that today often functions as a proxy for democratic contestation.