National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) welcomed by head of the Center for Research, Case Review, and Library Management (Puslitka) Pan M. Faiz, Wednesday (7/17/2024). Photo by MKRI/Fauzan.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — In an effort to explore collaboration opportunities, the Research Center for Language, Literature, and Communities (PR Bastranitas) of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) visited the Constitutional Court (MK) on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. They were welcomed by head of the Center for Research, Case Review, and Library Management (Puslitka) Pan Mohamad Faiz Kusuma Wijaya.

Faiz stated that a month ago, Puslitka had welcomed a BRIN research team to conduct research on the Constitutional Court’s decisions. “We are happy to welcome the head of research center and BRIN team for a discussion to explore collaboration opportunities,” he said.

On this occasion, head of PR Bastranitas, Ade Mulyanah, discussed the relationship between language and law. “The relationship between language and law is what we will discuss. We want to collaborate with partners, including in terms of research funding,” she said.

She also said that forensic linguistics, a branch of linguistics that studies the use of language in the context of law, has great potential to be applied in this collaboration. Through language analysis of the Court’s decisions, forensic linguistics can help identify ambiguities or inconsistencies that affect legal interpretation.

In addition, Ade continued, forensic linguistics can be used to verify the authenticity of documents submitted as evidence in court and to assist in the interpretation of ambiguous laws or regulations. By integrating BRIN’s forensic linguistics expertise into the legal process, including the Constitutional Court’s decisions, the justice system can ensure that language analysis is carried out scientifically and verifiably, thus achieving better justice.

Author              : Fauzan Febriyan
Editor               : N. Rosi
Translators        : Jihan Nibras/Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian versions, the Indonesian version will prevail.

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