Formulation of Criminal Law against Criminal Acts in the Land Sector in Indonesia

Soil is something that is very important for human life. Matters related to land require legal certainty for holders of land rights through a land registration activity. However, there are still problems in the land sector, namely the occurrence of land grabbing, so that the government makes legal rules which include criminal sanctions, such as land grabbing. in the Criminal Code is still too narrow, especially usurpation. Based on the legal issues, it is narrowed down in the formulation of the problem, namely: What are the forms of criminal acts in the land sector? How is the formulation of criminal law in dealing with crimes in the land sector? The term occupying is considered more appropriate, because the land is large and not just a yard as in Article 167 of the Criminal Code concerning land grabbing. Articles 263, 264, 266, of the Criminal Code are falsification of land rights documents, Article 385 of the Criminal Code contains elements of embezzlement of rights to immovable objects. The formulation is able to provide legal protection for individual land rights, legal entities, as well as for customary land or customary rights as long as the law or the community still adheres to the customary law applicable in their environment. Of course, this is driven by the mandate contained in Article 18 letter B of the 1945 Constitution. The objectives to be achieved are to describe the forms of actions that constitute criminal acts in the land sector and to find formulations of criminal law in dealing with crimes in the land sector.

Legal Protection on Good Intention Buyers Against the Auction Object Due to the Execution of Liability Rights

The problem of land in human life is very important, because most of human life is very dependent on the land. Therefore, buying and selling is not only the transfer of ownership rights to land to other parties, but also the transfer of land rights, where the buyer controls, manages and uses the object according to his interests and needs. A legal act of transferring rights must fulfill the principle of light and cash. The author presents an example of a sale and purchase agreement made in good faith, but the seller does something illegal and the buyer in good faith is not protected. There is an interesting legal issue for the author to examine in more depth about the land sale and purchase agreement as the legal fact that the buyer has good intentions but an unlawful act is committed by the seller, so that the object of the sale and purchase must ultimately be executed because the debtor defaults. The type of research is normative juridical. The conclusion from the legal position of the buyer who has good intentions, even though the evidence is in the form of an underhand sale and purchase agreement, must still get legal protection. Due to the legal action between the seller and the bank without the power and approval of the buyer, the agreement between the seller/debtor and the creditor can be qualified as “null and void” based on the good faith of the buyer in taking legal action with the seller or it can be qualified that the sale of the auction object is considered never to have occurred, as stipulated in Article 20 UUHT. And that the current regulations do not provide legal protection for buyers with good intentions. Because the rights of the buyer who have fulfilled the elements as stated in Article 1320 of the Civil Code are still being ruled out, it is proven by the auction of the object of sale and purchase that has been carried out by the seller with legal actions with other parties carried out unilaterally. So that in the future there is a need for regulations that provide more legal protection for buyers with good intentions.

Towards Food Security and Agricultural Self-Reliance: A Policy Study for the Rice Production in Liberia

Liberia is endowed with enormous opportunities to sustainably and sufficiently feed itself and even export the surplus of the products of vital arable fertile lands it possesses to other countries. Nevertheless, the Country’s catastrophic political turmoil that started in 1979 was the result of food insecurity and tempering the staple food of its people due to its unreasonable reliance on the importation of rice. The prime objective of the economy is to fight hunger in which absence the people would be angry then it may lead unwanted consequences. It is recorded that Liberia spends more than 1/3 of its national budget in rice importation every year amounting to US$250 million. Hence, in order to have a lasting and sustainable solution to food insecurity in the Country, it must consider the following triad: (a) Capacity building for mechanized farming (b) Setting up government-operated rice farms in each county or at least in each of nation’s four geographic regions and, (c) Empowering the local farmers and   AGREPRENEURS. Let it be assumed that out of 1/3 of the fiscal budget in tone of US$ 250 million, US$ 25 million every year dedicated committed and fully implemented in the local rice production by selecting one county in every fiscal year, in fifteen years, the country will have 15 operated and productive mega rice farms and, that will have a positive trickle-down effect on the economy by creating thousands of jobs in addition to reducing unsystematic, unplanned and disorganized urbanization that does more harm than good to our economy. Agriculture should be the THEME of Liberia’s economy; there is no sustainable way for it to thrive economically and development wide without taking a keen interest in the sector. Therefore, this work aims at looking into causes of food insecurity in Liberia. It also strives to provide some policy recommendations on how to trim and mitigate the problem.

The Impact of Business Environment on the Quality of Export Products

The quality of export products directly affects the use value and price of commodities, and it is an important factor that determines the use efficiency of commodities and affects the market price of commodities. In the form of unprecedented fierce competition in the current international market, many countries and regions have taken improving the quality of commodities and striving to win by quality as an important part of non-price competition, which is one of the important means to strengthen foreign competition. Different business environments in different regions will lead to problems in the quality of export products. Based on this, by reviewing relevant literature, this paper focuses on analyzing the impact of regional business environment, environmental regulation, trade liberalization and emerging technologies such as digitalization on the quality of export products, and explains the impact mechanism of different business environments on the quality of export products. Finally, based on the conclusions obtained, this paper discusses how the government should create a business environment to improve the quality of export products.

Explanation of the Meaning of Article 1 Paragraphs (2) of the 1945 Constitution of Republic of Indonesia to the Concept of the Constitutional Conventions in the Annual Achievement Reports of State Institutions

Amendments to Article 1 paragraph (2) of the 1945 Constitution have changed the Indonesian state administration system, including the power and position of state institutions. This change is a new thought towards state institutions that place the People’s Consultative Assembly which was originally the highest state institution and fully implementer of people’s sovereignty. Furthermore, the people’s mandate is carried out by branches of state power or state institutions based on the Constitution and does not recognize the Supreme State Institution and all state institutions have the same position in the state administration system as executor of people’s sovereignty. This study is to find and formulate legal arguments through an analysis of the subject matter, namely the concept of constitutional conventions. The results of this study explain that Article 1 paragraph (2) of the 1945 Constitution which has been amended gives meaning to the Indonesian state administration system, namely that it has changed the existence of state institutions as implementers of people’s sovereignty. The meaning of Article 1 paragraph (2) of the 1945 Constitution is extended to the customary practice of state administration. Because all state institutions are executor of people’s sovereignty, all these state institutions submit annual performance reports to the people through the convention mechanism.

Assessment and Learning Mathematics Integrated 21st Century Competency-Computational Thinking Skills in Junior High School: Partly Detailed and Completed Intervention Stage

This research is intended to develop the intervention of mathematics assessment and learning in junior high school integrated 21st Century competence-computational thinking skills. The research method is Design-based Research at the partly detailed and completed intervention stage. Twofold yield of the intervention of the research design are prototypical intervention (instructional materials) and its accompanying design principles (design model of assessment and learning). The instructional materials that have been developed are (1) blueprints for assessment and learning, (2) lesson plans containing outline topics, student worksheets, project tasks and homework, and (3) LMS e-Learning. The design principle that accompanies the intervention is a design model for mathematics learning and assessment integrated computational thinking skills. The results of the formative evaluation at the partly detailed and completed intervention stage showed that the development of intervention met the quality criteria of being practical and effective.

The Influence of Social Media on Language Trends South Jakarta Children as the Use of Language Day to Day

Social media is one of the important means, not only to communicate, but also to provide information to broaden horizons. Social media users can easily access and communicate not only with relatives or friends around but all foreign countries, which can provide knowledge about languages and cultures from various countries. The use of language is also evolving along with the development of technology and communication media. The phenomenon of the South Jakarta children’s language is a form of phenomenon created because of the strong and broad influence of social media. This trend refers to the habit of South Jakarta children who communicate using Indonesian and English in their daily lives. The inherent use of this language seems to provide an affirmation of an identity that is finally interesting to study to know the influence of social media in communication, as well as the reason why students code-mixing. This study used a quantitative descriptive research method by distributing questionnaires as a data collection technique. It was found that social media influenced the communication style of students of the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) Universitas Lampung by using code mixing because of the creation of interactions that were relaxed, modern, and showed their status as students.

Utilizing Social Constructivism to cultivate teacher educators’ and trainees’ digital competence: energizing learner-centered approach

This article examines the perspective of teacher educators and teacher trainees in an academic teacher education program regarding the application of social constructivist approach in cultivating ICT integration in teacher training, in order to have teachers fit for the 21st Century Education. This article provides an overview of social constructivism and its implications for ICT integration in classroom practices. Objectives of the study were to establish how social processes cultivate teacher educators’ and trainees’ technology knowledge and also to establish how social processes cultivate teacher educators’ and trainees’ technology skills. Participants were teacher trainers and trainees from School of Education, Makerere University and data were collected using focus group discussions. Data were analysed qualitatively by transcription. It was found out that; social interactions indeed cultivate a number of technology knowledge, but participants exhibited low levels of judgment and negotiation, low levels of data management, problem solving and critical thinking skills. It was concluded that; content analysis through team work is a basic technique for developing teacher educators’ and trainees’ technology knowledge and also, the digital skills require continuous active practice and they cannot be attained in isolation of technology knowledge.

Legal Certainty of Income Tax Exemption on the Transfer of Rights to Land in the Sharing of Collective Integration Rights

The transfer of property to certain heirs for the joint ownership of the object of inheritance must be transferred by way of the distribution of joint rights, which is based on the APHB. Article 4 paragraph (3) letter b of the Income Tax Law explains that the transfer due to inheritance is exempt from collecting PPh, but in its implementation it must be accompanied by a PPh SKB issued by KPP Pratama. So that in order to get the income tax exemption on the transition, the heirs must apply for the issuance of the SKB PPh to the KPP Pratama. However, the KPP Pratama often refuses the issuance of the SKB PPh, this results in the heirs having to pay PPh on the transition. This study uses a normative juridical method with a statutory approach and a conceptual approach, and legal materials are analyzed using a deductive method. The results of this study indicate that the transfer of land rights by the distribution of joint rights of inheritance should be exempted from income tax, because the distribution of joint rights is still included in the series of inheritance processes, so the transfer of income tax collection must be exempted. So that legal reform is needed to provide legal certainty in the exemption of PPh on the transition.