Simon is Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney Law School (CAPLUS).He also serves on the Executive of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC). Fluent in Indonesian, Simon has consulted on Indonesian law to the private and public sectors, and has provided advice and expert opinions about Indonesian law for litigation in the US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.

Research interests

Indonesian law generally, including constitutional, criminal, civil, human rights, commercial, Islamic and customary (adatlaw)
Comparative law – particularly transplanting legal norms between jurisdictions

Teaching and supervision

Indonesian Law
Southeast Asia Winter School

Associations

NAATI accredited Indonesian translator

PhD and master's project opportunities

Indonesian law

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Typology and Dynamics of Corporate Criminal Liability for Corruption in Indonesia	Karina Dwi Nugrahati PUTRI
THE IMPLICATION OF LEGAL RECOGNITION OF CUSTOMARY ADAT RIGHTS TO LAND AND TERRITORY ON ACCESS AND LIVELIHOOD	Mitra WULANDARI

Selected publications

Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia

(Melbourne University Press, 2023)

Indonesian Law

(Oxford University Press, 2018)

Climate Change and Forest Governance: Lessons from Indonesia

(Routledge, 2015)

The Constitutional Court and Democracy in Indonesia

(Brill, 2015)

Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives

(Springer, 2014)

Corruption and Law in Indonesia

(Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis, 2012)

The Constitution of Indonesia: A Contextual Analysis

(Hart Publishing, 2012)

Publications

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Books

Butt, S. (2023). Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2018). Indonesian Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lyster, R., Stephens, T. (2015). Climate Change and Forest Governance: Lessons from Indonesia. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2015). The Constitutional Court and Democracy in Indonesia. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2012). Corruption and Law in Indonesia. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2012). The Constitution of Indonesia: A Contextual Analysis. Oxford: Hart Publishing.

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Edited Books

Butt, S., Nasu, H., Nottage, L. (2014). Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives. Heidelberg: Springer. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Butt, S., Crockett, A., Lindsey, T. (2024). Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Disputes: Indonesia. In Teramura, N., Nottage, L., Jetin, B. (Eds.), Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration, (pp. 259-284). Singapore: Springer Singapore. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2023). Indonesia: 'Conditional' Decisions in the Constitutional Court. In Matthias Klatt (Eds.), Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation - Comparative Perspectives - Volume 1: National Reports, (pp. 307-326). Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd.
Butt, S. (2023). State Islamic Universities and Legal Curriculum Reform. In Tim Lindsey, Jamhari Makruf, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Islam, Education and Radicalism in Indonesia: Instructing Piety, (pp. 208-226). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2022). Electoral systems: Indonesia. In Wen-Chen Chang, David Law (Eds.), Constitutionalism in Context, (pp. 403-425). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2021). Aceh and Islamic criminal law in the courts. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in Indonesia, (pp. 535-558). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2021). The Criminal Code. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in Indonesia, (pp. 21-43). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2021). The Criminal Procedure Code. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in Indonesia, (pp. 44-69). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Lindsey, T., Butt, S. (2020). Indonesian financial laws: banking, insolvency and taxation. In Douglas W. Arner, Wai Yee Wan, Andrew Godwin, Wei Shen, Evan Gibson (Eds.), Research Handbook on Asian Financial Law, (pp. 336-367). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). Conditional constitutionality and conditional unconstitutionality in Indonesia. In Po Jen Yap (Eds.), Constitutional Remedies in Asia, (pp. 77-97). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S., Murjahanti, P. (2019). Indonesia. In Emma Lees, Jorge Vinuales (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, (pp. 232-252). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). Indonesia. In Fulvio Maria Palombino (Eds.), Duelling for Supremacy: International Law vs. National Fundamental Principles, (pp. 147-166). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). Indonesia's Anti-corruption Courts and the Persistence of Judicial Culture. In Melissa Crouch (Eds.), The Politics of Court Reform: Judicial Change and Legal Culture in Indonesia, (pp. 151-173). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). Provincial Asymmetry in Indonesia: What Is so 'Special' About It? A Country Study of Constitutional Asymmetry in Indonesia. In Patricia Popelier, Maja Sahadzic (Eds.), Constitutional Asymmetry in Multinational Federalism Managing Multinationalism in Multi-tiered Systems, (pp. 227-254). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). The Constitutional Court and minority rights: analysing the recent homosexual sex and indigenous belief cases. In Greg Fealy and Ronit Ricci (Eds.), Contentious Belonging: The Place of Minorities in Indonesia, (pp. 55-73). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies). [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). Arbitration in Indonesia: Largely Dependable Recognition and Enforcement. In Anselmo Reyes, Weixia Gu (Eds.), The Developing World of Arbitration: A Comparative Study of Arbitration Reform in the Asia Pacific, (pp. 189-204). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). Constitutions and Constitutionalism. In Robert W. Hefner (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia, (pp. 54-67). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). Indonesia's Constitutional Court and Indonesia's Electoral Systems. In Albert H. Y. Chen, Andrew Harding (Eds.), Constitutional Courts in Asia: A Comparative Perspective, (pp. 214-239). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). The Indonesian Constitutional Court: Implying Rights from the 'Rule of Law'. In Rosalind Dixon, Adrienne Stone (Eds.), The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective, (pp. 298-319). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2017). National control over local law making in Indonesia. In Not known (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Law, (pp. 203-223). TBC. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2016). Between Control and Appeasement: Religion in Five Constitutional Court Decisions. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia, (pp. 42-67). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Lindsey, T., Butt, S. (2016). State Power to Restrict Religious Freedom: An Overview of the Legal Framework. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia, (pp. 19-41). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2015). Central-local Relations in Indonesia: Reforming the Integralist State. In Andrew Harding, Mark Sidel (Eds.), Central-local Relations in Asian Constitutional Systems, (pp. 85-103). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Nottage, L., Butt, S. (2015). Recent International Commercial Arbitration and Investor-State Arbitration Developments Impacting on Australia's Investments in the Resources Sector. In Gabriel A. Moens, Philip Evans (Eds.), Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Resources Sector: An Australian Perspective, (pp. 153-179). Switzerland: Springer. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2015). The rule of law and anti-corruption reforms under Yudhoyono: the rise of the KPK and the Constitutional Court. In Edward Aspinall, Marcus Mietzner, Dirk Tomsa (Eds.), The Yudhoyono Presidency: Indonesia's Decade of Stability and Stagnation, (pp. 175-195). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).
Butt, S. (2014). Disaster Management Law in Indonesia: From Response to Preparedness? In Simon Butt, Hitoshi Nasu, Luke Nottage (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives, (pp. 183-196). Heidelberg: Springer. [More Information]
Nottage, L., Nasu, H., Butt, S. (2014). Disaster Management: Socio-Legal and Asia-Pacific Perspectives. In Simon Butt, Hitoshi Nasu, Luke Nottage (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives, (pp. 1-58). Heidelberg: Springer. [More Information]
Butt, S., Garcia, B., Parsons, J., Stephens, T. (2013). Brazil and Indonesia: REaDD+y or not? In Rosemary Lyster, Catherine MacKenzie, Constance McDermott (Eds.), Law, Tropical Forests and Carbon: The Case of REDD+, (pp. 251-274). New York, United States: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2013). Jurisdictional Expansion, Self-Limitation and Legal Reasoning in The Indonesian Constitutional Court. In Dri Utari Christina Rachmawati, Ismail Hasani (Eds.), Masa Depan Mahkamah Konstitusi RI: Naskah Konferensi Mahkamah Konstitusi dan Pemajuan Hak Konstitusional Warga (Future of the Constitutional Court: Conference Proceedings on the Constitutional Court and the Advancement of Citizens Constitutional Rights), (pp. 55-79). Bendungan Hilir, Indonesia: Pustaka Masyarakat Setara.
Lindsey, T., Butt, S. (2013). Unfinished Business: Law Reform, Governance, and the Courts in Post-Suharto Indonesia. In Mirjam Kunkler, Alfred Stepan (Eds.), Democracy and Islam in Indonesia, (pp. 168-186). New York, USA: Columbia University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2011). Foreign Investment in Indonesia: The Problem of Legal Uncertainty. In Vivienne Bath and Luke Nottage (Eds.), Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia, (pp. 112-134). Abingdon: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2011). Judicial Mafia: The courts and state illegality in Indonesia. In Edward Aspinall and Gerry van Klinken (Eds.), The State and Illegality in Indonesia, (pp. 189-213). Leiden: KITLV Press.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2010). Who Owns the Economy? Property Rights, Privatization, and the Indonesian Constitution: The Electricity Law Case. In Aileen McHarg, Barry Barton, Adrian Bradbrook, Lee Godden (Eds.), Property and the Law in Energy and Natural Resources, (pp. 236-254). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2009). The People's Prosperity? Indonesian Constitutional Interpretation, Economic Reform and Globalisation. In Peerenboom, Randall; Gillespie, John (Eds.), Regulation in Asia: Pushing Back on Globalisation, (pp. 270-295). United Kingdom: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Butt, S. (2008). Intellectual Property in Indonesia: A Problematic Legal Transplant. In Tim Lindsey (Eds.), Indonesia: Law and Society, (pp. 620-635). Sydney: Federation Press.
Butt, S. (2008). Polygamy and Mixed Marriage in Indonesia: Islam and the Marriage Law in the Courts. In Tim Lindsey (Eds.), Indonesia: Law and Society, (pp. 266-287). Sydney: Federation Press.
Butt, S. (2008). Surat Sakti: the Decline of the Authority of Judicial Decisions in Indonesia. In Tim Lindsey (Eds.), Indonesia: Law and Society, (pp. 346-362). Sydney: Federation Press.
Butt, S. (2007). The Constitutional Court's Decision in the Dispute Between the Supreme Court and the Judicial Commission. In Ross H. McLeod, Andrew J. MacIntyre (Eds.), Democracy and the Promise of Good Governance, (pp. 178-200). US: ISEAS Publishing (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2006). Intellectual property, civil law and the failure of law in Indonesia: can criminal enforcement of economic law work in developing countries? In Timothy Lindsey (Eds.), Law Reform in Transitional and Developing States, (pp. 391-412). US: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]

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Journals

Butt, S., Nathaniel, A. (2024). Evidence From Criminal Law Experts in Indonesian Criminal Trials: Usurping the Judicial Function? The International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 28(2), 129-153. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2023). Constitutional Court Decisions on the Judicial Independence of Other Indonesian Courts. Constitutional Review, 9(2), 247-275. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2023). Indonesia’s new Criminal Code: indigenising and democratising Indonesian criminal law? Griffith Law Review, 32(2), 190-214. [More Information]
Butt, S., Murharjanti, P. (2022). What Constitutes Compliance? Legislative Responses to Constitutional Court Decisions in Indonesia. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 20(1), 428-453. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2021). Indonesia's Criminal Justice System on Trial: The Jessica Wongso Case. New Criminal Law Review, 24(1), 3-58. [More Information]
Butt, S., Siregar, F. (2021). Multilayered Oversight: Electoral Administration in Indonesia. Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 16(S1), S121-S135. [More Information]
Butt, S., Murharjanti, P. (2021). The Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Indonesia. Journal of Environmental Law, 33(1), 33-56. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2021). What Makes a Good Judge? Perspectives from Indonesia. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8(2), 282-323. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2020). Constitutional Recognition of Beliefs in Indonesia. Journal of Law and Religion, 35(3), 450-473. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2020). Liability for the Death of Aircraft Passengers in Indonesia. Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 85(4), 573-608.
Butt, S. (2019). Judicial Reasoning and Review in the Indonesian Supreme Court. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 6(1), 67-97. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). The Indonesian Constitutional Court: Reconfiguring Decentralization for Better or Worse? Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 14(1), 147-174. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). Religious conservatism, Islamic criminal law and the judiciary in Indonesia: a tale of three courts. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 50(3), 402-434. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). The Function of Judicial Dissent in Indonesia's Constitutional Court. Constitutional Review, 4(1), 1-26. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2017). GIs in Indonesia: Indications of Legal Atrophy? European Intellectual Property Review, 39(5), 303-310.
Butt, S. (2016). The Constitutional Court and Indonesian Electoral Law. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 16(2), 1-18.
Butt, S., Crouch, M., Dixon, R. (2016). The First Decade of Indonesia's Constitutional Court. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 16(2 - Article 1), 1-7.
Butt, S. (2014). Asia-Pacific: Judicial responses to the death penalty in Indonesia. Alternative Law Journal, 39(2), 134-135. [More Information]
Butt, S., Schutte, S. (2014). Assessing judicial performance in Indonesia: the court for corruption crimes. Crime, Law and Social Change: an interdisciplinary journal, 62(5), 603-619. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2014). Book Review: Donald L. Horowitz, Constitutional change and democracy in Indonesia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xviii+326 pp. Bijdragen Tot de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde, 170(4), 559-563.
Butt, S., Parsons, N. (2014). Judicial Review and the Supreme Court in Indonesia: A New Space for Law? Indonesia, 97, 55-85. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2014). The Position of International Law within the Indonesian Legal System. Emory International Law Review, 28(1), 1-28.
Butt, S. (2014). Traditional Land Rights before the Indonesian Constitutional Court. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 10(1), 57-73.
Butt, S., Siregar, F. (2013). Analisis Kritik Terhadap Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 36/PUU-X/2012 [Critical Analysis of Constitutional Court Decision 36/PUU-X/2012]. Mimbar Hukum [Pulpit Journal of Law], 25(1), 1-12.
Butt, S. (2013). Freedom of Information Law and Its Application in Indonesia: A Preliminary Assessment. Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 8(1), 1-42. [More Information]
Butt, S., Siregar, F. (2013). State Control over Natural Resources in Indonesia: Implications of the Oil and Natural Gas Law Case of 2012. Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, 31(2), 107-121.
Butt, S. (2012). Asia-Pacific: 'Illegitimate' children and inheritance in Indonesia. Alternative Law Journal, 37(3), 196-198. [More Information]
Butt, S., Parsons, N. (2012). Reining in Regional Governments? Local Taxes and Investment in Decentralised Indonesia. Sydney Law Review, 34(1), 91-106.
Butt, S. (2011). Anti-Corruption Reform in Indonesia: An Obituary? Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 47(3), 381-394. [More Information]
Butt, S., Nottage, L. (2011). Book Review, A. Black & G. Bell (eds), Law and Legal Institutions of Asia: Traditions, Adaptations and Innovations (2011) CUP: UK. LawAsia Journal, 2011, 143-155.
Butt, S. (2011). Corruption, Law, Politics and Frame-Ups: The Plot to Dismantle Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Commission. Harvard Asia Pacific Review, 11(2).
Butt, S. (2010). Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Drive and the Constitutional Court. Journal of Comparative Law, 4(2), 186-204.
Butt, S. (2010). Islam, the State and the Constitutional Court in Indonesia. Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, 19(2), 279-301.
Butt, S. (2010). Regional Autonomy and Legal Disorder: The Proliferation of Local Laws in Indonesia. Sydney Law Review, 32(2), 177-197.
Butt, S. (2009). ''Unlawfulness'' and Corruption Under Indonesian Law. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 45(2), 179-198. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2009). Asian Law in Translation: Translator's Note on the Indonesian Corruption Court Law. The Unravelling of Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Framework Through Law and Legal Process. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 11(2), 302-307.
Butt, S. (2008). Anti-Terrorism Law and Criminal Process in Indonesia. Islam, Syari'ah and Governance Background Papers, 1, 3-36.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2008). Economic Reform When the Constitution Matters: Indonesia's Constitutional Court and Article 33. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 44(2), 239-261. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2006). Indonesia's Constitutional Court and the Death Penalty. Asian Currents, November 2006.
Butt, S. (2006). Indonesia's Constitutional Court: a reform over-achiever? Inside Indonesia, 87.
Butt, S. (2006). Review of Bedner and Niessen (eds), Towards Integrated Environmental Law in Indonesia. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 42(2), 263-280.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2005). TRIPs and intellectual property law reform in Indonesia: why injunctions aren't stopping piracy. Harvard Asia Pacific Review, 8(2), 14-18.
Butt, S., David, N., Laws, N. (2004). Looking Forward: Local Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Timor Leste. Australian Legal Resources International.
Butt, S., Hansell, D. (2004). The Masykur Abdul Kadir Case: Indonesian Constitutional Court Decision No 013/PUU-I/2003. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 6(2), 176-196.
Butt, S. (2003). Indonesia: can legal diversity exist within a single national law. Alternative Law Journal, 28(6), 304-306.

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Edited Journals

Butt, S., Crouch, M., Dixon, R. (2016). Special Issue: The First Decade of Indonesia's Constitutional Court. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 16(2).

Report

Butt, S. (2009). Two at the top: the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court.

Research Reports

Butt, S. (2013). Indonesian Constitutional Court decisions in regional head electoral disputes, (pp. 1 - 35). Canberra, ACT, Australia: Centre for Democratic Institutions, Australian National University.
Butt, S. (2011). Research Studies on the Organisation and Functioning of the Justice System in Five Selected Countries (China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea and Russian Federation) | Indonesia Final Report, 563, (pp. 153 - 161). Hanoi, Vietnam: Judicial Publishing House.

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2024

Butt, S., Crockett, A., Lindsey, T. (2024). Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Disputes: Indonesia. In Teramura, N., Nottage, L., Jetin, B. (Eds.), Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration, (pp. 259-284). Singapore: Springer Singapore. [More Information]
Butt, S., Nathaniel, A. (2024). Evidence From Criminal Law Experts in Indonesian Criminal Trials: Usurping the Judicial Function? The International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 28(2), 129-153. [More Information]

2023

Butt, S. (2023). Constitutional Court Decisions on the Judicial Independence of Other Indonesian Courts. Constitutional Review, 9(2), 247-275. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2023). Indonesia: 'Conditional' Decisions in the Constitutional Court. In Matthias Klatt (Eds.), Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation - Comparative Perspectives - Volume 1: National Reports, (pp. 307-326). Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd.
Butt, S. (2023). Indonesia’s new Criminal Code: indigenising and democratising Indonesian criminal law? Griffith Law Review, 32(2), 190-214. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2023). Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia. Carlton: Melbourne University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2023). State Islamic Universities and Legal Curriculum Reform. In Tim Lindsey, Jamhari Makruf, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Islam, Education and Radicalism in Indonesia: Instructing Piety, (pp. 208-226). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]

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2022

Butt, S. (2022). Electoral systems: Indonesia. In Wen-Chen Chang, David Law (Eds.), Constitutionalism in Context, (pp. 403-425). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S., Murharjanti, P. (2022). What Constitutes Compliance? Legislative Responses to Constitutional Court Decisions in Indonesia. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 20(1), 428-453. [More Information]

2021

Butt, S. (2021). Aceh and Islamic criminal law in the courts. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in Indonesia, (pp. 535-558). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2021). Indonesia's Criminal Justice System on Trial: The Jessica Wongso Case. New Criminal Law Review, 24(1), 3-58. [More Information]
Butt, S., Siregar, F. (2021). Multilayered Oversight: Electoral Administration in Indonesia. Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 16(S1), S121-S135. [More Information]
Butt, S., Murharjanti, P. (2021). The Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Indonesia. Journal of Environmental Law, 33(1), 33-56. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2021). The Criminal Code. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in Indonesia, (pp. 21-43). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2021). The Criminal Procedure Code. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in Indonesia, (pp. 44-69). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2021). What Makes a Good Judge? Perspectives from Indonesia. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8(2), 282-323. [More Information]

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2020

Butt, S. (2020). Constitutional Recognition of Beliefs in Indonesia. Journal of Law and Religion, 35(3), 450-473. [More Information]
Lindsey, T., Butt, S. (2020). Indonesian financial laws: banking, insolvency and taxation. In Douglas W. Arner, Wai Yee Wan, Andrew Godwin, Wei Shen, Evan Gibson (Eds.), Research Handbook on Asian Financial Law, (pp. 336-367). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2020). Liability for the Death of Aircraft Passengers in Indonesia. Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 85(4), 573-608.

2019

Butt, S. (2019). Conditional constitutionality and conditional unconstitutionality in Indonesia. In Po Jen Yap (Eds.), Constitutional Remedies in Asia, (pp. 77-97). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S., Murjahanti, P. (2019). Indonesia. In Emma Lees, Jorge Vinuales (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, (pp. 232-252). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). Indonesia. In Fulvio Maria Palombino (Eds.), Duelling for Supremacy: International Law vs. National Fundamental Principles, (pp. 147-166). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). Indonesia's Anti-corruption Courts and the Persistence of Judicial Culture. In Melissa Crouch (Eds.), The Politics of Court Reform: Judicial Change and Legal Culture in Indonesia, (pp. 151-173). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). Judicial Reasoning and Review in the Indonesian Supreme Court. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 6(1), 67-97. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). Provincial Asymmetry in Indonesia: What Is so 'Special' About It? A Country Study of Constitutional Asymmetry in Indonesia. In Patricia Popelier, Maja Sahadzic (Eds.), Constitutional Asymmetry in Multinational Federalism Managing Multinationalism in Multi-tiered Systems, (pp. 227-254). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). The Constitutional Court and minority rights: analysing the recent homosexual sex and indigenous belief cases. In Greg Fealy and Ronit Ricci (Eds.), Contentious Belonging: The Place of Minorities in Indonesia, (pp. 55-73). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies). [More Information]
Butt, S. (2019). The Indonesian Constitutional Court: Reconfiguring Decentralization for Better or Worse? Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 14(1), 147-174. [More Information]

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2018

Butt, S. (2018). Arbitration in Indonesia: Largely Dependable Recognition and Enforcement. In Anselmo Reyes, Weixia Gu (Eds.), The Developing World of Arbitration: A Comparative Study of Arbitration Reform in the Asia Pacific, (pp. 189-204). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). Constitutions and Constitutionalism. In Robert W. Hefner (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia, (pp. 54-67). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). Indonesia's Constitutional Court and Indonesia's Electoral Systems. In Albert H. Y. Chen, Andrew Harding (Eds.), Constitutional Courts in Asia: A Comparative Perspective, (pp. 214-239). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2018). Indonesian Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). Religious conservatism, Islamic criminal law and the judiciary in Indonesia: a tale of three courts. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 50(3), 402-434. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). The Function of Judicial Dissent in Indonesia's Constitutional Court. Constitutional Review, 4(1), 1-26. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2018). The Indonesian Constitutional Court: Implying Rights from the 'Rule of Law'. In Rosalind Dixon, Adrienne Stone (Eds.), The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective, (pp. 298-319). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

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2017

Butt, S. (2017). GIs in Indonesia: Indications of Legal Atrophy? European Intellectual Property Review, 39(5), 303-310.
Butt, S. (2017). National control over local law making in Indonesia. In Not known (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Law, (pp. 203-223). TBC. [More Information]

2016

Butt, S. (2016). Between Control and Appeasement: Religion in Five Constitutional Court Decisions. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia, (pp. 42-67). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S., Crouch, M., Dixon, R. (2016). Special Issue: The First Decade of Indonesia's Constitutional Court. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 16(2).
Lindsey, T., Butt, S. (2016). State Power to Restrict Religious Freedom: An Overview of the Legal Framework. In Tim Lindsey, Helen Pausacker (Eds.), Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia, (pp. 19-41). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2016). The Constitutional Court and Indonesian Electoral Law. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 16(2), 1-18.
Butt, S., Crouch, M., Dixon, R. (2016). The First Decade of Indonesia's Constitutional Court. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 16(2 - Article 1), 1-7.

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2015

Butt, S. (2015). Central-local Relations in Indonesia: Reforming the Integralist State. In Andrew Harding, Mark Sidel (Eds.), Central-local Relations in Asian Constitutional Systems, (pp. 85-103). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Butt, S., Lyster, R., Stephens, T. (2015). Climate Change and Forest Governance: Lessons from Indonesia. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Nottage, L., Butt, S. (2015). Recent International Commercial Arbitration and Investor-State Arbitration Developments Impacting on Australia's Investments in the Resources Sector. In Gabriel A. Moens, Philip Evans (Eds.), Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Resources Sector: An Australian Perspective, (pp. 153-179). Switzerland: Springer. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2015). The Constitutional Court and Democracy in Indonesia. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2015). The rule of law and anti-corruption reforms under Yudhoyono: the rise of the KPK and the Constitutional Court. In Edward Aspinall, Marcus Mietzner, Dirk Tomsa (Eds.), The Yudhoyono Presidency: Indonesia's Decade of Stability and Stagnation, (pp. 175-195). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).

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2014

Butt, S., Nasu, H., Nottage, L. (2014). Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives. Heidelberg: Springer. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2014). Asia-Pacific: Judicial responses to the death penalty in Indonesia. Alternative Law Journal, 39(2), 134-135. [More Information]
Butt, S., Schutte, S. (2014). Assessing judicial performance in Indonesia: the court for corruption crimes. Crime, Law and Social Change: an interdisciplinary journal, 62(5), 603-619. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2014). Book Review: Donald L. Horowitz, Constitutional change and democracy in Indonesia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xviii+326 pp. Bijdragen Tot de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde, 170(4), 559-563.
Butt, S. (2014). Disaster Management Law in Indonesia: From Response to Preparedness? In Simon Butt, Hitoshi Nasu, Luke Nottage (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives, (pp. 183-196). Heidelberg: Springer. [More Information]
Nottage, L., Nasu, H., Butt, S. (2014). Disaster Management: Socio-Legal and Asia-Pacific Perspectives. In Simon Butt, Hitoshi Nasu, Luke Nottage (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives, (pp. 1-58). Heidelberg: Springer. [More Information]
Butt, S., Parsons, N. (2014). Judicial Review and the Supreme Court in Indonesia: A New Space for Law? Indonesia, 97, 55-85. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2014). The Position of International Law within the Indonesian Legal System. Emory International Law Review, 28(1), 1-28.
Butt, S. (2014). Traditional Land Rights before the Indonesian Constitutional Court. Law, Environment and Development Journal, 10(1), 57-73.

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2013

Butt, S., Siregar, F. (2013). Analisis Kritik Terhadap Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 36/PUU-X/2012 [Critical Analysis of Constitutional Court Decision 36/PUU-X/2012]. Mimbar Hukum [Pulpit Journal of Law], 25(1), 1-12.
Butt, S., Garcia, B., Parsons, J., Stephens, T. (2013). Brazil and Indonesia: REaDD+y or not? In Rosemary Lyster, Catherine MacKenzie, Constance McDermott (Eds.), Law, Tropical Forests and Carbon: The Case of REDD+, (pp. 251-274). New York, United States: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2013). Freedom of Information Law and Its Application in Indonesia: A Preliminary Assessment. Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 8(1), 1-42. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2013). Indonesian Constitutional Court decisions in regional head electoral disputes, (pp. 1 - 35). Canberra, ACT, Australia: Centre for Democratic Institutions, Australian National University.
Butt, S. (2013). Jurisdictional Expansion, Self-Limitation and Legal Reasoning in The Indonesian Constitutional Court. In Dri Utari Christina Rachmawati, Ismail Hasani (Eds.), Masa Depan Mahkamah Konstitusi RI: Naskah Konferensi Mahkamah Konstitusi dan Pemajuan Hak Konstitusional Warga (Future of the Constitutional Court: Conference Proceedings on the Constitutional Court and the Advancement of Citizens Constitutional Rights), (pp. 55-79). Bendungan Hilir, Indonesia: Pustaka Masyarakat Setara.
Butt, S., Siregar, F. (2013). State Control over Natural Resources in Indonesia: Implications of the Oil and Natural Gas Law Case of 2012. Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, 31(2), 107-121.
Lindsey, T., Butt, S. (2013). Unfinished Business: Law Reform, Governance, and the Courts in Post-Suharto Indonesia. In Mirjam Kunkler, Alfred Stepan (Eds.), Democracy and Islam in Indonesia, (pp. 168-186). New York, USA: Columbia University Press. [More Information]

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2012

Butt, S. (2012). Asia-Pacific: 'Illegitimate' children and inheritance in Indonesia. Alternative Law Journal, 37(3), 196-198. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2012). Corruption and Law in Indonesia. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Butt, S., Parsons, N. (2012). Reining in Regional Governments? Local Taxes and Investment in Decentralised Indonesia. Sydney Law Review, 34(1), 91-106.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2012). The Constitution of Indonesia: A Contextual Analysis. Oxford: Hart Publishing.

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2011

Butt, S. (2011). Anti-Corruption Reform in Indonesia: An Obituary? Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 47(3), 381-394. [More Information]
Butt, S., Nottage, L. (2011). Book Review, A. Black & G. Bell (eds), Law and Legal Institutions of Asia: Traditions, Adaptations and Innovations (2011) CUP: UK. LawAsia Journal, 2011, 143-155.
Butt, S. (2011). Corruption, Law, Politics and Frame-Ups: The Plot to Dismantle Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Commission. Harvard Asia Pacific Review, 11(2).
Butt, S. (2011). Foreign Investment in Indonesia: The Problem of Legal Uncertainty. In Vivienne Bath and Luke Nottage (Eds.), Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia, (pp. 112-134). Abingdon: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2011). Judicial Mafia: The courts and state illegality in Indonesia. In Edward Aspinall and Gerry van Klinken (Eds.), The State and Illegality in Indonesia, (pp. 189-213). Leiden: KITLV Press.
Butt, S. (2011). Research Studies on the Organisation and Functioning of the Justice System in Five Selected Countries (China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea and Russian Federation) | Indonesia Final Report, 563, (pp. 153 - 161). Hanoi, Vietnam: Judicial Publishing House.

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2010

Butt, S. (2010). Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Drive and the Constitutional Court. Journal of Comparative Law, 4(2), 186-204.
Butt, S. (2010). Islam, the State and the Constitutional Court in Indonesia. Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, 19(2), 279-301.
Butt, S. (2010). Regional Autonomy and Legal Disorder: The Proliferation of Local Laws in Indonesia. Sydney Law Review, 32(2), 177-197.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2010). Who Owns the Economy? Property Rights, Privatization, and the Indonesian Constitution: The Electricity Law Case. In Aileen McHarg, Barry Barton, Adrian Bradbrook, Lee Godden (Eds.), Property and the Law in Energy and Natural Resources, (pp. 236-254). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

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2009

Butt, S. (2009). ''Unlawfulness'' and Corruption Under Indonesian Law. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 45(2), 179-198. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2009). Asian Law in Translation: Translator's Note on the Indonesian Corruption Court Law. The Unravelling of Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Framework Through Law and Legal Process. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 11(2), 302-307.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2009). The People's Prosperity? Indonesian Constitutional Interpretation, Economic Reform and Globalisation. In Peerenboom, Randall; Gillespie, John (Eds.), Regulation in Asia: Pushing Back on Globalisation, (pp. 270-295). United Kingdom: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Butt, S. (2009). Two at the top: the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court.

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2008

Butt, S. (2008). Anti-Terrorism Law and Criminal Process in Indonesia. Islam, Syari'ah and Governance Background Papers, 1, 3-36.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2008). Economic Reform When the Constitution Matters: Indonesia's Constitutional Court and Article 33. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 44(2), 239-261. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2008). Intellectual Property in Indonesia: A Problematic Legal Transplant. In Tim Lindsey (Eds.), Indonesia: Law and Society, (pp. 620-635). Sydney: Federation Press.
Butt, S. (2008). Polygamy and Mixed Marriage in Indonesia: Islam and the Marriage Law in the Courts. In Tim Lindsey (Eds.), Indonesia: Law and Society, (pp. 266-287). Sydney: Federation Press.
Butt, S. (2008). Surat Sakti: the Decline of the Authority of Judicial Decisions in Indonesia. In Tim Lindsey (Eds.), Indonesia: Law and Society, (pp. 346-362). Sydney: Federation Press.

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2007

Butt, S. (2007). The Constitutional Court's Decision in the Dispute Between the Supreme Court and the Judicial Commission. In Ross H. McLeod, Andrew J. MacIntyre (Eds.), Democracy and the Promise of Good Governance, (pp. 178-200). US: ISEAS Publishing (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies).

2006

Butt, S. (2006). Indonesia's Constitutional Court and the Death Penalty. Asian Currents, November 2006.
Butt, S. (2006). Indonesia's Constitutional Court: a reform over-achiever? Inside Indonesia, 87.
Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2006). Intellectual property, civil law and the failure of law in Indonesia: can criminal enforcement of economic law work in developing countries? In Timothy Lindsey (Eds.), Law Reform in Transitional and Developing States, (pp. 391-412). US: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Butt, S. (2006). Review of Bedner and Niessen (eds), Towards Integrated Environmental Law in Indonesia. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 42(2), 263-280.

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2005

Butt, S., Lindsey, T. (2005). TRIPs and intellectual property law reform in Indonesia: why injunctions aren't stopping piracy. Harvard Asia Pacific Review, 8(2), 14-18.

2004

Butt, S., David, N., Laws, N. (2004). Looking Forward: Local Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Timor Leste. Australian Legal Resources International.
Butt, S., Hansell, D. (2004). The Masykur Abdul Kadir Case: Indonesian Constitutional Court Decision No 013/PUU-I/2003. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 6(2), 176-196.

2003

Butt, S. (2003). Indonesia: can legal diversity exist within a single national law. Alternative Law Journal, 28(6), 304-306.

Selected Grants

2021

Legal recognition of customary law communities and land access: Case study of the Toraja region of Indonesia, Neilson J, Butt S, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/Collaborative Research Grant
Socio-cultural Factors and the Use of Therapeutic Opioids in Indonesia, Pols H, Aslani P, Butt S, Glare P, Mintzes B, Kramer E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)

2019

Anti-corruption Reform and Governance in Indonesia, Butt S, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/Workshop Grant

2017

Citizenship, Indigenous Religions and Conservative Islam: the KTP case and its effects, Bagir Z, Butt S, Maarif S, Vredian F, Australian National University/Indonesia Project and SMERU Research Institute Research Grant

2016

Indonesias Anti-Corruption Courts: Making or Breaking Governance Reform, Butt S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Future Fellowships (FT)

2014

Denny Indrayana Visit, Butt S, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/Research Grant

2013

Evaluating smallholder livelihoods and sustainability in Indonesian coffee and cocoa value chains, Neilson J, Butt S, Toth R, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)/Research and Development Programs (R&D Programs)

2011

Balancing Climate Change Laws and Policies with the Needs of Forest Communities in Indonesia, Lyster R, Stephens T, Butt S, Australian Aid/Australian Leadership Awards Fellowships
Indonesias Constitutional Court: Safeguarding Democratic Transition, Butt S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2009

Developing a legal framework for Indonesias participation in an internationally sanctioned scheme for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (and Degradation), Lyster R, Stephens T, Peden E, Butt S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2008

Lawmaking in Regional Parliaments: Translating Policy into Law, Butt S, Australian Aid/Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership
Research studies on the organisation and functiong of the justice system in five selected countries (China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea and Russian Federation), Bath V, Butt S, Nottage L, United Nations Development Programme/Research Support

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