Contesting Indonesian Plain vs Legal Languages: Analysis of Effectiveness on Indonesian Controversial Law

Abstract

This study is motivated by the difficulty of laypeople to understand the language of law. The study aims to analyze the high complexity of the Indonesian legal language and to generate alternatives that are more effective and easier for the general public. This study has tried to offer a simpler legal language formula, especially in the controversial articles of the Job Creation Law. The data in this study are in the form of text obtained through the official website of the State Secretariat, namely: https://jdih.setneg.go.id/Produk. This study uses a text analysis framework developed by Bivins (2008) as the framework used to apply plain language to legal language. This study shows that the application of plain language in controversial articles of the Job Creation Law is quite effective, especially in the components of sentences, cross-references, voice, and word choice.