December 2, 2025 — On Tuesday (2/12), the Department of Criminology welcomed students from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) who participated in the UTS Criminology Intensive Program. This activity is a form of collaboration between the Department of Criminology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia and international universities, with the hope of enriching knowledge related to the discipline of criminology as a whole. Attended by eight UTS students and two UI Criminology students as accompanying students, the first agenda in the overall series of events began with an introduction to the criminal justice system in Indonesia and the impact of that system.
Specifically, the theme presented at the beginning of the UTS Criminology Intensive program was the impact of Indonesia’s criminal justice system and imperfect law enforcement on Indonesia’s environment and nature. Fundamentally, Indonesia has an irreplaceable position in terms of nature and the environment, from its forests to its waters. However, this situation means that Indonesia has a huge responsibility to preserve its natural environment, and in recent decades, Indonesia has not fulfilled this role as it should have, with environmental pollution and deforestation becoming increasingly severe.
Based on this, criminologists have initiated a new subdiscipline, namely green criminology, which focuses specifically on examining and discussing environmental damage and loss and how to protect the environment through appropriate policy design. Green criminology is the main theme that will be discussed in several upcoming UTS Criminology Intensive Program activities.
During this introductory session, students attending the UTS Criminology Intensive Program were asked to discuss various issues related to green criminology. Students can relate various environmental phenomena they encounter to how criminal justice procedures and systems, as well as legal regulations, do not reflect good environmental justice. This first meeting serves as a starting point for students enrolled in the UTS Criminology Intensive Program to broaden their perspectives on the issues at hand.
This roughly five-hour event was the first step in a series of events for the UTS Criminology Intensive Program, which will continue next week. The collaboration between the UI Criminology Department and UTS in this program is expected to foster good relations and spark a meaningful exchange of insights into the differences between the criminal justice systems in the two countries.
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- Documentation of the introductory session carried out by members of the UTS Criminology Intensive.
- Closing documentation of the UTS Criminology Intensive introduction event
- Closing documentation of the UTS Criminology Intensive introduction event
