The Role of Law in Building Community Morality

Indah Nadya Kalalo, Irawaty and Duhita Driyah Suprapti
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Indah Nadya Kalalo: Building K, Semarang State University, Sekaran Campus, Gunungpati, Semarang City, Central Java, Indonesia
Irawaty: Building K, Semarang State University, Sekaran Campus, Gunungpati, Semarang City, Central Java, Indonesia
Duhita Driyah Suprapti: Building K, Semarang State University, Sekaran Campus, Gunungpati, Semarang City, Central Java, Indonesia

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2025, vol. 9, issue 1, 445-451

Abstract: The Indonesian nation is a nation that has long been known as a nation that highly upholds eastern customs with its polite, friendly and civilized morality. However, at this time the reality of the Indonesian nation has experienced a very concerning moral degradation. This is evident in the many cases that have occurred, such as brawls between students, theft, robbery, rape, free sex, alcohol, drugs and the current trend is the proliferation of corruption in almost all state institutions. Indonesia as a state of law needs to strive to rebuild the morality of the nation’s children through the law itself by creating a law-abiding legal culture, increasing legal awareness, and seeking the implementation of policies that can build the morality of the Indonesian people. This study aims to determine the role of law in building morality in society. This research This research uses a literature study research method, while the data collection technique is carried out by exploring journals and other information relevant to the study. The results of this study indicate that the role of law in building community morality is to ensure certainty and justice, in people’s lives there is always a difference between patterns of behavior or behavior that applies in society and patterns of behavior desired by norms (rules). law.

Date: 2025
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