Tuesday, March 27, 2007

APPLIED LAW THEORY








The university students could be considered as agent of change and make a huge changing in every country. Their radical thinking tendency sometimes becomes a boomerang for them selves. Every university students ideally have three characters that are student in the university, professional human resources in their field of education (could become a part of institution or company) and as a public servant.

Why I can say that their radical thinking tendency becomes a boomerang or in fact even timebomb for them selves. It's because they are facing with the balance of three characters, but those three characters never balance, so that makes them too busy with one or two characters and they're not ready and prepare with all of globalization changing what is demand self improvement and dynamic character in some kind of institution. It's just a few of students who can fulfil those three characters what I already say.

Education in Indonesia is facing dilemma problems, what would be created? A thinker? Or, a young professional ready to work? Besides, a problem about minimum calculation of education become an addition problem what is could not solve the dilemma problem.

The public opinion apparently affirm that study in university is to becoming a worker (employee's) and it's not becoming a thinker. Salary factor is becoming a reason that a thinker could not (apart from luck and destiny) be a rich person and couldn't increase standart of living.

And then who is proper to be blame about the system? The government? I often laughing if there are people said that the government is proper to be blame about the broken system. A lot of demontrations by public, academics, politicians, and also Non Government Organizations apparently still can't push government to do something and the government is closed on all of the problems.

And then, as university students what would we do? When I was a law student I've dilemma problem experiences. The Indonesian law's is totally under/being politicization and should be given severe of critics. The Indonesian law's is already broken and sick, but why we're still obidient and do the broken law. This is what idealist person thinking, but for me as a law practitioner...WHO CARES!!!

The only way out, I think we must act out of the conventional learning system. Law student in United States of America accept a lecture with the Socrates Method. This method teach that student have always think pragmatism in studying law cases. The lecturer is always give law cases for discussed in front of class with student. Law student is demanded to read so many books, so many articles, which are could find in the library, surfing on the internet, etc, as long as related with the cases. Those element (books, articles, etc) could be certained by lecturer or not.

So student is always demanded to ready an prepare to discuss and answer several quetions from lecturer. In addition, that law student must apprentice in the professional law firm, so could become a professional law pratitioner , not "THE PERSON WITH ALL OF CRAPP AND IDEALISM THEORY THAT MAKES ME SICK", eventhough they're just graduated from law school.

Law student in United States of America compete each other individually and professionally in law market to face globalization era needs abouy professional law practitioner. Eventually, this is what I called "APPLIED LAW THEORY". A big question, when law education in Indonesia could be like that???