Abstract
Despite becoming a rapidly growing megacity, in some of Jakarta’s areas, particularly in the underprivileged areas, a significant portion of its citizens still lack access to adequate domestic water. For years, water privatization has been considered a major barrier to solving the issue. Jakarta’s citizens have mobilized themselves to publicly reclaim Jakarta’s water governance. One of the significant actions was filing a citizen lawsuit against the relevant state authorities, which eventually was ruled in favor of the state authorities due to procedural reasons. Using the ROLAX framework developed by Bedner and Vel, this paper tries to understand to what extent the water privatization lawsuits and civil society’s legal mobilizations in Jakarta reflect an effective access to justice process. Incorporating socio-legal methods by combining empirical and doctrinal research, this paper shows that the process of access to justice is not straightforwardly related to the outcome of legal processes. In this case, the access to justice process does not end with the citizen lawsuit, as citizens’ mobilization goes beyond the courtroom. CSO’s representing citizens who experienced water access problems have adopted the courts’ favorable legal considerations in further pushing the government to conduct full public management of Jakarta’s water management and demanding the fulfilment of their water access rights.
Bahasa Abstract
Meskipun menjadi kota besar dengan pertumbuhan yang cepat, di beberapa area di Jakarta, terutama di daerah miskin, banyak dari warga Jakarta masih kekurangan akses terhadap air yang layak untuk keseharian. Selama bertahun-tahun, privatisasi air dianggap sebagai tantangan terbesar dalam menjawab permasalahan ini. Menghadapi masalah ini, warga Jakarta telah memobilisasi diri untuk menuntut pengelolaan air Jakarta oleh publik. Salah satu upaya mereka adalah mengajukan gugatan warga negara terhadap penyelenggara negara yang berkaitan. Namun, pengadilan tidak memenangkan mereka. Menggunakan kerangka ROLAX yang dikembangkan oleh Bedner dan Vel, tulisan ini berupaya untuk memahami sejauh apa gugatan privatisasi air dan mobilisasi hukum warga Jakarta telah merefleksikan suatu proses mencari keadilan yang efektif. Dengan menggunankan metode sosio-legal menekankan menekankan studi interdisipliner yang mengkombinasikan studi empiris dan doctrinal, tulisan ini menunjukkan bahwa proses tersebut tidak sederhana. Hasil dari proses tersebut tidak hanya bisa dilihat dari putusan pengadilan semata karena mobilisasi warga juga terjadi di luar ruang pengadilan. Warga telah memasukkan berbagai pertimbangan hukum dari hakim dalam mendorong pemerintah untuk melaksanakan pengelolaan air secara penuh dan menekan pemerintah agar segera memenuhi hak atas air dari warga Jakarta. Perlu ada penelitian selanjutnya untuk mengkaji dengan lebih baik efektivitas dari mobilisasi warga ini terhadap pencapaian keadilan atas air di Jakarta.
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Erratum
Minor revision from "II. History of Water Remunicipalization in Jakarta" to "History of Water Remunicipalization in Jakarta"
Recommended Citation
Tuslian, Widya Naseva; Rinwigati, Patricia; and Sandyawan, Stanislaus
(2024)
"In Pursuit of Water Justice in Jakarta,"
The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies: Vol. 3:
No.
2, Article 3.
DOI: 10.54828/ijsls.2024v3n2.3
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https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/ijsls/vol3/iss2/3
