TANTANGAN PENERAPAN ANALISIS DAMPAK DALAM LEGISLASI INDONESIA

Quality of legislation, undoubtedly, is influenced by the preliminary legal research conducted. But there is more, as a number of members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in this context also utilizes impact assessment studies to guarantee good legislations. The question discussed here is to whether impact assessment study should also be used by the Indonesian parliament. By looking at countries which already implement this approach, it is found that such impact assessment study can only be performed if experts are readily available. In any case, the author recommends that the government adopt this approach in the making of statutes.

Gender Justice and Empowerment

This study is an impact assessment study of the rehabilitation work done for Chhara women in the rural precincts of Ahmedabad district in the state of Gujarat, India. The women of this community are infamous absconders of law and active bootleggers of locally made liquor. As part of a psychological study with a local NGO, the authors headed an impact assessment study of training program aimed at rehabilitating and providing these women alternate modes of employment, thereby driving them away from a life of crime. The chapter centers on the idea of women entrepreneurship and women empowerment. This study argues that making these poor women self-dependent is a panacea for their sluggish development. This has further led the community astray into making illegal country liquor causing further damage to their reputation. Women are at the centre of this vicious circle facing much repression and ostracisation.