The project Best Practice in Transfer: Study Module "Law and Culture" is a cooperation between the faculties of Law and Culture Studies of Leipzig and the University of Malang and Jakarta.
About the project
The interdisciplinary study module is part of the DAAD-Program "Subject-related Partnerships with Universities in Developing Countries" and is financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Key Aspects and Background
Within the scope of the subject-related partnership, the key aspect should be the joint formation and enhancement of the interdisciplinary, jurisprudential and socio-scientific study module "Law and Culture". During the annual realization of the study module "Best Practices" with regard to modularisation, internationalisation, university didactic, interdisciplinary and practices-oriented aspects should be developed, approved and implemented at the Indonesian partner universities.
Therefore, experiences, which were made by the partner universities in the last years within the project "Exploring Legal Cultures", could be used for designing the study module "Law and Culture". Now, the previous activities should be improved particularly with regard to structural effects. This contains the implementation of interdisciplinary teaching at the Indonesian universities, which should be didactical based.
Agenda
The project aim is to design and develop a joint interdisciplinary study module, which is hold annually. Thereby, forms and characteristics of the Indonesian and German legal system are central as well as the debate on specific and cultural influenced legal views and practices, the role of internaional regulations and human rights.
The experiences, which gained by holding the study module "Law and Culture" should be used by the partner universities and integrated on-site. The teaching staff at the participating universities will be qualified in innovative teaching-learning forms. In the end, the study module should be implemented as a regular part in the jurisprudential as well as the socio-scientific teaching of the Indonesian partner universities.
Main topic
Mainly, the project is dealing with the question of how the modern pluralistic society deals with religious, cultural and political varieties and commons and how the society deals with conflicts and agreements. Especially pointing out the role of legal claims and regulations. The debates equally present the German and the Indonesian perspectives including the social structures and cultural scientific point of view.
Structure
The project is separated into two parts:
Firstly, it is an interdisciplinary module "Law and Culture". Secondly it is an exchange program between host scientists and students. Besides the focus on social and legal systems of both countries, the project takes a critical look at problems and issues that are related to human rights.
The practical part of the project consists of an exchange with institutions outside the university and actors of the legal politics such as the Federal Administrative Court. The exchange between young scientists and students is a way to intensify the dialogue on scientific issues and possible cooperation.
Information on past lectures
In 2019, the first part of the Law and Culture program took place in Leipzig from June 24 until July 4. The topic in 2019 focused on “Law and Cultural Change”. After the opening ceremony and the welcoming of our guest from Indonesia on the first day, the participants had a program full of activities for the next two weeks. Beside lectures that considered the main topic from a sociological as well as law perspective, the participants joined a workshop organized by the DFG Kolleg- Forschergruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities", and visited the Regional Court, where they had the chance to discuss with female judges and lawyers about their work and role as a woman at the court. Didactical workshops, discussion rounds with experts and interdisciplinary student working groups were also part of the program in Leipzig.
Part two of the program was held in Indonesia from August 26 until September 1, 2019. The first three days, the program took place at the Universitas Negeri Jakarta. All participants joined a class hold by the National Commission on Violence against Women, and a presentation of the “Never Okay” research project on women sexual harassment. A public seminar and film screening of the movie “Among Men-Gay in East Germany” was also part of the program. In Malang, we visited the female prison, where we got an introduction, a Q&A session as well as a guidance through the prison. Beside lecturers with representatives from the NGOs “Female Workers in Malang” and “Dian Mutiara Women Crisis Center”, the student conference was part of the program, where all working groups presented their research results to the audience.
The first part of the study module took place from September 3 until September 10, 2018 in Jakarta and Malang. The topic of the 2018 program was Law – Punishment – Resocialization. Beside different introduction and methodical lectures related to the topic, the participants visited the National Commission on Human Rights (KOMNAS HAM), had a discussion with a representative from the NGO Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) and went to the juvenile prison in Blitar. Introduction lectures focused on topics like “Methods of Law” from a German and Indonesian perspective as well as “Sociological Theories and Perspective on Law and Punichment”. A Keynote Speech by Prof. Demko with the topic “Theories of punishment in National and International Criminal Law” was hold at the Law Faculty in Malang. Furthermore, various cultural activities and trips in Jakarta and Malang were part of the program.
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The study module continued from October 15 until October 26, 2018 in Leipzig. The students worked together in interdisciplinary and intercultural working groups in order to find argumentations in a fictitious trial. In the final stages of the program, the students presented their results in a simulation game. Beside a joint session with the DFG Kolleg-Forschergruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" the participants had different lectures, seminars and didactical workshops as well as reflection sessions. The participants visited the prison in Leipzig/Wachau and the Regional Court Leipzig where they had a discussion with judges from the Federal Court of Justice and the Regional Court Leipzig about decision-making at the court.
The first part of the seminar took place from the 16th of October until the 26th of October 2017 in Leipzig. The program in Leipzig comprised different methodical and didactical lectures, seminars and workshops as well as working groups and reflection session. Beside a joint session with the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" the students visited the Federal Administrative Court, the Juvenile penal institution Regis-Breitingen, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the Youth Psychiatry.
The seminar was continued from the 3rd of December until the 11th of December 2017 in Malang. Besides working in groups and presenting the seminar topics, the participants went on cultural trips. For example they visited a female prison and made a trip to the tea plantation in Lawang.