Virality as the New Face of Law Enforcement in Indonesia: Between Legal Awareness and Legal Feelings
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Virality as a form of people power and is a form of new law enforcement culture(monitoring) arising from the pessimistic attitude of the community towards law enforcement in Indonesia today. However, virality can have a sustainable negative impact due to the imbalance between legal awareness and legal feelings in society. Legal feelings that are too dominant form a new legal culture that is not healthy and affects the achievement of legal ideals. The urgency of this research is carried out because the use of virality by the public as a form of new law enforcement in Indonesia is currently in the stage of an unhealthy legal culture, so that the discussion of increasing legal awareness in overseeing the running of law enforcement in social media is important and actual for further study. This study aims to examine the influence of legal culture that lives in society, especially between the use of legal feelings and legal awareness in addressing the current conditions of law enforcement in Indonesia. The specifications in this research use a type of normative juridical research method with a statutory approach and conceptual approach. The data analyzed is secondary data obtained indirectly through literature study techniques.
Source: Syiah Kuala Law Journal
Authors: Antony Antony, Agung Pratama Osmond, Muhammad Ali Sabisi
Institution: International University of Batam
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409800576