New Direction to the Sustainable Development Goals in Job Creation Bill in Indonesia

Abstract

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) deliver a long list for UN Member countries to do, especially in the legal and regulatory frameworks. UN SDGs contain many kinds of human needs aspect, and it is not easy to regulate all through the conventional legislative process. It raises the needs of the omnibus bill use. This article studied the opportunities and the urgency of the omnibus bill use to solve this problem. The author uses a doctrinal method with literature studies to examine how SDGs can be obtained with the use of the omnibus bill. The omnibus bill has the potential to help countries achieve the UN SDGs. In the implementation stage, the author found that it is a normal phenomenon that a political will contains economic interests in the adaptation process, likewise, with the omnibus bill case in several countries. However, it does not erase the fact that there has been a wave of resistance in its implementation due to people's unpreparedness in accepting changes brought by the political policies that are contained in the controversial omnibus bill. Therefore, the government must ensure that the omnibus bill is open to the change opportunities demanded by the people to improve the omnibus bill.

A sustainability review on the Indonesian job creation law

“…The ultimate goal of the JCL is to stimulate economic growth and increase job opportunities [ [2] , [3] , [4] , 8 ]. Internationally, this goal is translated into increasing the EoDB Score [ 7 ].…”

“…All of the above scholars noted the lack of studies on the legal aspect of spatial planning in JCL, despite that it is an integral part of environmental management in Indonesia. Research on JCL is mostly done from the legal perspective, such as in Iwan et al [ 6 ], Lumbanraja [ 8 ], Samawati and Sari [ 5 ], and Sihombing and Hamid [ 4 ]. Under the environmental umbrella topic, Ng and Jye [ 2 ] discussed the importance of a shift to renewable energy in Indonesia.…”

Omnibus Law as Investment Law Reform in Indonesia Based on the Hierarchy of Legislation Principles

“…In Plato's book entitled "1RmRi" which was later translated into English under the title "The Laws", it is clearly illustrated how the idea of nomocracy has actually been developed for a long time from the time of Ancient Greece. (Lumbanraja, 2021) Professor Utrecht distinguishes between the Formal Rule of Law or the Classical Rule of Law, and the Rule of Materiel or the Modern Rule of Law. The formal rule of law concerns the notion of law that is formal and narrow, namely in the sense of written laws and regulations.…”

“…If the rule of law is not good in investment licensing, investors will of course divert the direction of investment to other countries. (Lumbanraja, 2021) The task of the Indonesian state in realizing the welfare and prosperity of the people which is the ideal of the 1945 Constitution cannot be separated from the position of a modern legal state. The classical rule of law only focuses on the state.…”