Smart Local Legislation: Comparative Lessons from Madrid, Taiwan, and Estonia for Indonesia’s Regional Regulation-Making
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https://doi.org/10.15294/lslr.v10i2.49896Keywords:
Smart Local Legislation, E-Participation, Open Data, JDIH, Regional Regulation-MakingAbstract
This article examines the need to transform Indonesia’s regional regulation-making from a predominantly formal and documentary process into a smart, participatory, data-driven, and accountable model of local law-making. The problem addressed is the gap between the normative promise of public participation in regional legislation and the institutional reality in which legal information systems, particularly JDIH, remain focused on documenting enacted regulations rather than facilitating public access to the process of norm formation. Using normative legal research with conceptual and comparative-functional approaches, the article analyses Indonesia’s regulatory framework and examines three functionally selected jurisdictions: Madrid’s platform-based local participation, Taiwan’s deliberative civic technology, and Estonia’s trust-oriented digital infrastructure. These cases are selected not for constitutional similarity but as diverse institutional solutions to one shared functional problem, and each is read together with its critical evaluative literature. The comparison proceeds through a five-variable grid covering point of entry, mode of input processing, identity assurance, obligation to respond, and regulatory traceability. The findings show that smart local legislation requires three integrated functions: participatory access, deliberative processing, and digital trust. JDIH is argued to be the most institutionally viable foundation for this transformation, provided its function is expanded from a passive legal repository into a civic legal infrastructure accommodating legislative agendas, draft regulations, academic manuscripts, open regulatory data, public submissions, harmonization records, version histories, and reasoned institutional responses. The article offers a normative-conceptual framework rather than an empirical evaluation; its propositions are advanced as testable design hypotheses for subsequent implementation research.
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