The Pakungwati Institute for Social Transformation and Justice is a research institution managed by the Yayasan Pawiyatan Pakungwati Cirebon (Pawiyatan Pakungwati Cirebon Foundation). This institution serves as a center for the development of ideas, research, scholarly publication, and knowledge advocacy in the fields of social transformation, law, justice, and Islamic studies responsive to societal change. Grounded in the values of scholarship, social justice, and academic ethics, the Pakungwati Institute seeks to strengthen a critical, inclusive, and transformative academic tradition. The institution promotes cross-disciplinary studies that connect law, society, religion, culture, education, and public policy.

Journals

  • Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society

    Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society

    Journal Profile
    About the Journal
    Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society (PJILS)
    PJ
    Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal

    Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society (PJILS) is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing scholarly inquiry into Islamic law and its dynamic relationship with society. The journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to examine Islamic legal traditions, institutions, practices, and transformations across diverse social, cultural, political, and legal contexts.

    Areas of Scholarly Interest
    Islamic Jurisprudence (fiqh) Usul al-Fiqh Maqasid al-Shariah Islamic Family Law Islamic Economic Law Islamic Constitutional Thought Islamic Political Thought Comparative Islamic Law Legal Pluralism Gender and Islamic Law Islamic Law and Human Rights Contemporary Islamic Legal Thought
    Scholarly Orientation

    Published by the Pakungwati Institute for Social Transformation and Justice under Yayasan Pawiyatan Pakungwati Cirebon, Indonesia, PJILS particularly encourages theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous research that explores Islamic law as both a normative tradition and a living social phenomenon.

    The journal welcomes doctrinal, comparative, historical, socio-legal, anthropological, and interdisciplinary approaches, with particular interest in studies addressing the interaction between Islamic law, state law, customary norms, social change, and questions of justice.

    Approaches Welcomed by PJILS
    Doctrinal
    Comparative
    Historical
    Socio-Legal
    Anthropological
    Interdisciplinary
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    Regional Focus, Global Dialogue

    While giving significant attention to Indonesia and Southeast Asia, PJILS welcomes contributions from different jurisdictions and Muslim societies worldwide. The journal seeks to facilitate meaningful dialogue between Islamic legal scholarship and contemporary debates in law, society, justice, and social transformation.

    PJILS bridges Islamic legal traditions with contemporary questions of society, justice, legal pluralism, and social change.

  • Pakungwati Law Review

    Pakungwati Law Review

    About the Journal

    Critical and interdisciplinary legal scholarship connecting law, society, justice, and social transformation.

    Pakungwati Law Review (PLR) is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing critical and interdisciplinary scholarship in law and legal studies. The journal provides a forum for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to examine contemporary legal issues from doctrinal, comparative, empirical, socio-legal, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Its scope encompasses constitutional and administrative law, criminal law, private and commercial law, international law, human rights, environmental law, law and technology, legal pluralism, access to justice, and other emerging fields of legal scholarship.

    Published by the Pakungwati Institute for Social Transformation and Justice under Yayasan Pawiyatan Pakungwati Cirebon, Indonesia, PLR is particularly interested in scholarship that explores the relationship between law, society, justice, and social transformation. The journal welcomes theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous studies addressing legal developments in Indonesia and other jurisdictions, as well as comparative and transnational perspectives. By fostering dialogue across legal traditions, disciplines, and jurisdictions, Pakungwati Law Review seeks to contribute to the development of legal scholarship that is intellectually rigorous, socially responsive, and relevant to contemporary challenges of justice and legal change.

    Peer-Reviewed Independent academic assessment
    Interdisciplinary Multiple approaches to law and society
    Comparative and Transnational Indonesia and other jurisdictions
    Core Areas
    Constitutional Law Administrative Law Criminal Law Private and Commercial Law International Law Human Rights Environmental Law Law and Technology Legal Pluralism Access to Justice