The legal research method is one of the academic fields that continues to generate debate among law students and law colleges in Indonesia. This debate is important because the research method is a means for a legal scholar to obtain the truth. This article maps the debate on normative and socio-legal research, emphasizing the former type of research. This article explores the origins and debates of normative legal research methods in Indonesian legal education and some of the mainstream approaches commonly used in normative legal studies. This condition does not aim to develop a claim on the validity of normative legal research methods as the only research method but rather to position normative legal research proportionally in the legal scholarship in Indonesia.
This paper aims to discuss the authority of members of the House of Representatives (DPR) in the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia (UUDNRI 1945), the legal vacuum in determining the tenure of the DPR, and the urgency of ideal regulation DPR tenure. The study uses normative juridical research with a statutory and conceptual approach. The power of the DPR in the 1945 Constitution is very broad, not only relates to legislative power but also the executive and judicial. The regulation regarding the time limit for the DPR’s period has not yet been regulated (there is a legal vacuum). There is no statutory regulation governing the time limit for a person to become a member of the DPR. The urgency of limiting the period of members of the House of Representatives is to limit the holding of power too long and provide opportunities for other citizens. Members of the Regional House of Representative (DPRD) can serve for 2 periods at the district/city level, after which they can submit at the provincial level for 2 periods, and finally can apply to become a member of the DPR RI for 2 periods.
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