The Dominance and Influence of Positivism Paradigm on Judicial Decision Making

Abstract

The court plays a pivotal role in the Indonesian law enforcement. The judge is the key component of judicial process and how the judge`s paradigm will give impact on court decision making. Paradigm represents a worldview of judge when handling a case. This paper used double type of legal research, doctrinal and non-doctrinal. Doctrinal legal research is used to obtain the secondary data and non-doctrinal legal research is intended to obtain the primary data. The purpose of this paper is to describe the factual condition of the paradigm on judicial decision making and to explain the influence of positivism paradigm on judge`s role. The result concludes that the judge`s paradigm still dominate by positivism paradigm and judge`s role is only applying the law.

Basis Nilai Penalaran Hukum Non-Sistemik Dalam Kerangka Dialektika Penalaran Hukum Sistemik Ke Arah Penalaran Hukum Non Sistemik

“…Para hakim digambarkan sebagai subsomat automat, bukan pencipta hukum, tetapi hanya menerapkan hukum. Fungsi hakim adalah fungsi mekanis (Indreswari 2018).…”

“…Dengan menerapkan hukum tertulis, peran hakim terkait dengan nilai kepastian hukum yang berorientasi. Memang kepastian hukum memiliki beberapa keunggulan, tetapi ketika peran hakim hanya diterapkan pada hukum, jelas diakui bahwa kurangnya keberanian hakim untuk membuat pelanggaran aturan ketika memutuskan suatu kasus (Indreswari 2018).…”