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7 JILS i (2022)

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                         EDITORIAL


     TRANSLATING THE MEANING OF

     JUSTICE AND LEGAL PROTECTION:

         WHAT EXACTLY IS JUSTICE?


                       Ridwan  Arifin

 Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia


                M ridwan.arifin@mail.unnea.ac.id



JUSTICE   HAS    MANY    MEANINGS, dimensions, and        even
approaches. Not only in one country, but universally justice could be
the same concept on one side, but it could also be different on the other
side. Various views on the concept of justice also differ, influenced by
the development of society, culture, social, or even the ideology of a
country.1
     Several figures also have their own views on an important
question: what exactly is justice? Plato, for example, believes that
justice is the gift of rights that every human being has. He believes that
justice in society is achieved when every member of society gets his

1 Erakat, Noura. Justice for Some. In Justice for Some. Stanford University Press,
  2019; Forrester, Katrina. In the Shadow of Justice. In In the Shadow of Justice.
  Princeton University Press, 2019; Nolan, James L. Reinventing justice.
  In Reinventing Justice. Princeton University Press, 2021.


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