Doctoral Program in Law

Overview

The Doctoral Program in Law (PS DIH) was established in 1995 as part of the Parahyangan Catholic University Graduate School with the first chair of the postgraduate program (master of law and doctor of law) being Prof. Dr. Brigadier General (ret.) Soedjono Dirdjosisworo, SH, MBA. The initiative to establish a graduate school, and specifically a Doctoral Program (the Master’s Program was established five years later), was developed and realized during the period when the University was under the leadership of the Rector of Parahyangan Catholic University: A.P. Sugiarto, S.H. At the same time, the Graduate School also developed Doctoral Programs in other fields of study, such as Civil Engineering and Architecture, Social Sciences, Economics, and Management.

Among the first batch of alumni of the Doctoral Program in Law were several permanent lecturers from the Faculty of Law at Unpar, who later successfully obtained the highest academic title of professor, namely Prof. Johannes Gunawan and Prof. Bernadette Waluyo. Several professors at other universities, such as Prof. Johannes Ibrahim (Marwadewa University-Bali), Prof. Dwidja (Suryakancana University – Cianjur), the late Prof. Dudu Duswara (Judge at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia), and Prof. Dr. H.M Syarifuddin, SH, MH (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 2020-2025) are also alumni of the UNPAR Doctoral Program. Other names that can be mentioned—even as successors to the late Prof. B. Arief Sidharta from UNPAR—are Prof. Dr. Shidarta (BINUS-Jakarta) and Dr. Anthon F. Susanto (UNPAS-Bandung). Of course, not all can be mentioned because, as of 2023, the number of DIH Program alumni has reached more than 131 people. In 2016-17, the UNPAR Doctoral Program in Law Alumni Association was established with Prof. Dudu Duswara as its first chair. Currently, the chair of the UNPAR Doctoral Program in Law Alumni Association is held by Dr. Kikit Wirianti Sugata (2021-2026).

In 2018-19, the Graduate School was dissolved and the management of the Doctoral Program in Law was returned to the Faculty of Law. At the same time, the Faculty of Law initiated an evaluation and revision of the Doctoral Program curriculum that had been in effect since 2000. In 2019, the new curriculum for the Doctoral Program at the UNPAR Faculty of Law was approved by the Rector and began to be implemented. Starting from the 2018/2019 Academic Year, in line with the policy of restructuring and reorganizing the management of Parahyangan Catholic University, the Doctoral Program in Law was placed under the management of the Faculty of Law at Parahyangan Catholic University. Thus, the Dean of the Faculty of Law (formerly the Director of the Graduate School) became the main person in charge of managing the Doctoral and Master’s Programs.

Doctoral Learning Outsomes

Doctors are capable to:
1. Attitude

• Be devoted to God Almighty and able to demonstrate religious attitudes.
• Uphold human values in carrying out duties based on religion, morals, and ethics.
• Contribute to improving the quality of life in society, nation, state, and civilization based on Pancasila.
• Act as a citizen who is proud and loves the country, has nationalism and a sense of responsibility to the state and nation.
• Respect cultural diversity, views, religions, and beliefs, as well as the opinions or original findings of others.
• Cooperate and have social sensitivity and concern for society and the environment.
• Obey the law and discipline in social and state life.
• Internalize academic values, norms, and ethics.
• Demonstrate a responsible attitude towards work in their field of expertise independently.
• Internalize the spirit of independence, struggle, and entrepreneurship.
• Becoming an intellectual who upholds truth, goodness, and beauty.
• Being able to empower the community in the social, cultural, economic, and legal fields.
• Demonstrating honesty, nobility, and loyalty in carrying out their profession and work.
• Demonstrating mutual trust, mutual service, and upholding equality in their profession and work.

2. General skills of doctors

• Able to apply logical, critical, systematic, and innovative thinking in the context of developing or implementing science and technology that considers and applies humanities values appropriate to their field of expertise.
• Able to demonstrate independent, high-quality, and measurable performance.
• Able to assess the implications of the development or implementation of science and technology that pays attention to and applies humanistic values in accordance with their expertise based on scientific principles, procedures, and ethics in order to produce solutions, ideas, designs, or artistic criticism.
• Able to compile a scientific description of the above assessment in the form of a thesis or final project report, and upload it to the university website.
• Able to make appropriate decisions in the context of problem solving in their field of expertise, based on the results of information and data analysis.
• Able to maintain and develop a network with mentors, colleagues, and peers both inside and outside their institution.
• Able to take responsibility for the achievement of group work results and to supervise and evaluate the completion of work assigned to workers under their responsibility.
• Able to conduct self-evaluation of the work group under their responsibility and able to manage learning independently.
• Able to document, store, secure, and retrieve data to ensure validity and prevent plagiarism.

3. Work ability/special skills

• Apply the principles and norms of Indonesian Positive Law, including International Law, in solving legal problems or cases, and be able to analyze and evaluate the results academically, independently, and responsibly.
• Reasoning and thinking legally in solving legal problems or cases so as to be able to develop concepts for resolving legal problems or cases.
• Recognizing the main problems or issues in Indonesian Positive Law in meeting the developing needs of society, as well as efforts to realize the Indonesian National Legal System based on the values of Pancasila.
• Designing basic legal documents in accordance with the types of legal needs of the community, both in the context of dispute resolution and non-dispute resolution, inside and outside the court, regulatory and non-regulatory, national and transnational, especially laws applicable in the Asia Pacific region.
• Formulating ideas, opinions, analyses, or legal arguments through a process of legal research and thinking, and communicating them in writing and orally based on academic ethics principles.
• Collaborating with colleagues based on humanistic, democratic, ethical, law-abiding, mutually respectful, and nationalistic attitudes.

4. Knowledge

• Mastering the theoretical concepts of Law, Legal Traditions or Systems, and certain Social Sciences closely related to law in order to understand the application and development of Indonesian Positive Law and International Law, especially Law in the Asia Pacific region.
• Mastering knowledge of the history, sources, foundations, principles, and legal norms of all Indonesian Positive Law and International Law, as well as the need to realize a complete, systemic, and comprehensive Indonesian National Legal System; and knowledge of the laws applicable in the Asia Pacific region.
• Mastery of knowledge about the principles, steps, and techniques of drafting concepts for resolving legal problems or cases using legal reasoning methods or juridical thinking methods and knowledge of Indonesian Positive Law.
• Mastering the principles and methods of legal research and writing, especially those that are monodisciplinary, to produce elementary legal documents and/or academic essays in the field of law, in accordance with the characteristics of legal science and academic ethics principles.
• Mastering knowledge of oral and written communication techniques for use inside and outside the courtroom, as well as for establishing cooperation with colleagues.
• Master general concepts of knowledge about Law in order to better understand and recognize problems in the application and development of Indonesian Positive Law.