About Dr Simon Butt
Anything to do with Indonesian law.
Dr Simon Butt is ARC Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a member of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at Sydney Law School.
Prior to joining the faculty as Senior Lecturer, Simon worked as a consultant on the Indonesian legal system to the Australian government, the private sector and international organisations, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). He has published widely on a variety of areas of Indonesian law, including constitutional, criminal and environmental, and is particularly interested in corruption and decentralisation in Indonesia.
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Selected publications
- Corruption and Law in Indonesia, Routledge, 2011
- Constitutional Law of Indonesia (with Tim Lindsey), Hart Publishing, 2012 (forthcoming)
Anti-corruption reform in Indonesia: an obituary?, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (December 2011, forthcoming)
‘Judicial Mafia: The Courts and State Illegality in Indonesia’ in Aspinall and van Klinken, The state and illegality in Indonesia, KITLV Press (with Tim Lindsey). - ‘Regional Autonomy and the Proliferation of Perda in Indonesia: An Assessment of Bureaucratic and Judicial Review Mechanisms’, Sydney Law Review, vol 32(2) 177, 2010.
‘Islam, the state and the Constitutional Court in Indonesia’, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, vol 19(2) 279, 2010. - “Unlawfulness” and corruption under Indonesian law’ Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2009: 207–26.
‘Intellectual Property Law in Indonesia: A Problematic Legal Transplant’, in T Lindsey (ed), Indonesia: Law and Society, 2nd edition, Federation Press, Sydney, 2008. - ‘Surat Sakti: the Decline of the Authority of Judicial Decisions in Indonesia’, in T Lindsey (ed), Indonesia: Law and Society, 2nd edition, Federation Press, Sydney, 2008.