Sebelum mengulas bukunya, penting untuk mengetahui sosok di balik karya agung ini. Prof. C.S.T. Kansil (Christine S.T. Kansil) adalah seorang akademisi dan praktisi hukum yang sangat dihormati di Indonesia. Beliau merupakan Guru Besar Emeritus pada Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia (UI).
This is not a flaw but a feature. The paper argues that Kansil was writing for a specific generation: the birokrat muda (young bureaucrat). The 1970s and 1980s in Indonesia (the New Order era) demanded administrative efficiency. Kansil’s PIH-THI taught students how to categorize a regulation, identify the competent authority ( pejabat yang berwenang ), and challenge an administrative decision through PTUN (Administrative Courts). It was a manual for state-building. Cst Kansil Pengantar Ilmu Hukum Dan Tata Hukum Indonesia
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Why read Kansil in the 2020s? The Omnibus Law (Law No. 11/2020 on Job Creation) shattered traditional hierarchies of Tata Hukum , creating confusion about whether a regulation can override a statute. Kansil’s rigid Stufenbaulehre is precisely the tool needed to critique such legislative shortcuts. His insistence on systematic interpretation forces modern lawyers to ask: Does the Omnibus Law violate the vertical hierarchy of norms? Kansil’s ghost haunts the Constitutional Court’s judicial review arguments. Kansil (Christine S
C.S.T. Kansil’s Pengantar Ilmu Hukum Dan Tata Hukum Indonesia is more than a textbook; it is a monument to legal modernization. It taught three generations of Indonesian lawyers to think systematically rather than intuitively . While it suffers from a formalist bias and a neglect of Adat , its strength lies in its clarity. In a world of legal fragmentation, Kansil offers a map. For the student of Indonesian law, to ignore Kansil is to navigate the archipelago’s legal waters without a compass.