Department of Criminology Profile

• Pioneer in Criminology Education in Indonesia
  The Department of Criminology, FISIP UI, is the first in Indonesia and remains the only undergraduate (S1) criminology study program with an “Excellent” accreditation.
• Interdisciplinary Curriculum
  Students are equipped with a comprehensive understanding of crime from social, legal, psychological, and technological perspectives—making graduates ready to face real-world challenges.
• Experienced and Expert Teaching Staff
  The lecturers are academics and practitioners active in research, consultation, and policy development in the fields of criminality and the criminal justice system.
• Complete Academic Support Facilities
  Various facilities are available, such as discussion rooms, a cybercrime laboratory, and access to various journals and scientific resources to support learning and research activities.
• Extensive Network and Diverse Career Opportunities
  UI Criminology graduates have career prospects in various agencies, including the police, government institutions, NGOs, media, and the private sector related to security and risk analysis.
• Active in Research and Social Advocacy
  This department is actively involved in strategic research and social issues related to crime, and encourages students to participate in academic activities and community service.

All education programs have received accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia.

To establish the Department of Criminology as a provider of education, research, and community service to address criminal challenges and issues at national, regional, and global levels, aiming to become a leader in Southeast Asia.

• To produce graduates who possess academic and professional capabilities in criminology, have high moral character, and are able to compete globally.
• To organize high-quality education, research, and community service activities in the field of criminology that are relevant to national, regional, and global challenges and issues.
• To discover, develop, and create scientific and technological works in the field of criminology, and to disseminate them for the benefit of science and social justice.

The Department of Criminology aims to be a provider of research-based education, teaching, and community service in the field of Criminology to address national and international crime issues. To produce Criminology graduates who possess:

• high personal integrity and uphold human rights.
• master scientific fundamentals and skills in the field of criminology, enabling them to identify, understand, explain, and formulate solutions to problems within their expertise.
• able to apply knowledge and skills in criminology in productive activities and community service with attitudes and behaviors consistent with communal life.
• able to conduct themselves and behave appropriately when working in the field of criminology and living together in society.
• able to keep up with developments in science, technology, and/or arts relevant to their expertise.

The study of criminology at the Universitas Indonesia began with the establishment of the Criminology Institute of the Universitas Indonesia (LKUI) (a legacy of Universiteit van Indonesia). This institution was formerly named Criminologisch Instituut and was a multidisciplinary scientific institution comprising forensic medicine, forensic chemistry and natural sciences (criminalistics), criminal law, and criminology.

LKUI was established on September 15, 1948, long before the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences was founded (February 1, 1968) – and in 1988, LKUI was renamed the Center for Justice and the Rule of Law. This institution was closed in 2006.

LKUI, which became the birthplace of the Department of Criminology, initially focused on a “bio-sociological” approach. Jan Remmelink described the bio-sociological approach as follows.

Therefore, the initial curriculum of the Criminology Department included courses such as “anthropo-biology,” “forensic psychiatry,” and “forensic psychology.” Paul Moedikdo, S.H., the initiator and founder of the Department of Criminology, transformed the ideas from this bio-sociological approach into a theory called “dialogue theory.”

“the Department of Criminology Relies more on a Social Sciences Approach, Viewing Crime as a Social Phenomenon.”

In subsequent developments, specifically in the late 1970s, the Department of Criminology increasingly relied on a social sciences approach, viewing crime as a social phenomenon. Therefore, the Department of Criminology at the University of Indonesia became part of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

The Department of Criminology at the Universitas Indonesia is one of the few institutions offering criminology as a dedicated major. However, criminology as a course is widely taught in various law faculties across Indonesia, particularly to aid further understanding of criminal law. Additionally, criminology as a specialization concentration has also been offered, for example, by the Department of Sociology at Hassanudin University.

In 2009, the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Indonesia held a meeting to discuss the possibility of opening criminology majors or departments outside the University of Indonesia. The meeting was attended by approximately twenty representatives from universities with social science faculties across Indonesia.

To address societal developments, the Department of Criminology strives to anticipate these changes by responding to the evolving forms of crime in the era of Industry 4.0 revolution, such as cybercrime, transnational crime, organized crime, and radical puritanism, through various efforts to provide public policy recommendations via criminological analysis based on cutting-edge theories such as feminist criminology, realist criminology, constitutive criminology, catastrophic criminology, visual criminology, cultural criminology, newsmaking criminology, green criminology, computational criminology, and so on.