Workshop with the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights
HSF and the Ministry of Law and Human Rights held a Workshop on guidelines for scientific writing for the Legal Drafters

The Director of HSF Indonesia, Ms. Julia Berger delivered remarks on the opening

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The Director of Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) Indonesia was attending the opening ceremony virtually and underlined in her speech the long term cooperation between HSF Indonesia and the Directorate General for Legislation in implementing this workshop. She stated that “[…] the workshop, aiming to strengthen the competence of legal drafters in the preparation of scientific writing, was held for the first time in 2017 for legal Drafters in the area of South Sulawesi. In the period of 2017-2019 we have supported five similar workshops, where more than 150 legal drafters at the central and regional levels.”

Scientific journals play an important role in the dissemination of legal information, legislation, or government policies in the field of legislation. However, legal drafters from regional offices in Indonesia still hardly contribute to such journals because they lack writing necessary skills. That is why HSF started a program focusing on enhancing their skill set. In the current workshop 30 legal drafters participated - those in the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, both central and regional, as well as legal drafter who serve in local government. The workshop included sharing of information about knowledge on writing guidelines in the form of practice on scientific writing theory, layout technique and script editing, as well as practice both of these substances.

The Head of Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Mr. Indro Purwoko, and participants at the opening ceremony of the workshop

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The Director General for Legislation, Prof. Dr. Widodo Ekatjahjana, in his remarks conveyed that it would be even more useful if journals could be translated into English and disseminated through the HSF network spread across Asian, European and other parts of the world.

During the three days of the workshop, the participant received valuable inputs from the experts.  Participants' interest and enthusiasm were highly visible, especially in the question-and-answer interaction session. Several participants admitted that this was their first time participating in a similar workshop. After the workshop participants have the chance to submit their article for publication in the biannual law journal from the Directorate General of Legislation at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.