| Location: | Depok, West Java, Indonesia |
| Established: | 1909 – 18 May 1928 (as Dutch; Flemish: Rechtsschool) (as Dutch; Flemish: Rechtshogeschool) (as Dutch; Flemish: Nood Universiteit) (as Dutch; Flemish: Universiteit Indonesia) |
| Dean: | Parulian Paidi Aritonang |
| Faculty: | 1 |
| Enrollment: | 485 (2022) |
The Faculty of Law University of Indonesia (Indonesian: Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia, abbreviated as FH UI) is the law school of the University of Indonesia, a public university in Depok, West Java. Founded in 1924, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in Indonesia.[1]
The Faculty of Law University of Indonesia was founded in Batavia in 1909 as the Dutch; Flemish: Rechtsschool (Law School), a college of law established as a realization of a request from the Regent of Serang, Achmad Djajadiningrat, for the purposes of training legal staff for the district court.[2] The name Dutch; Flemish: Rechtsschool was later changed to Dutch; Flemish: Rechtshoogeschool te Batavia (Law School at Batavia, abbreviated as RHS) by Governor-General Dirk Fock on 28 October 1924, with a purpose to develop the lower civil administration personnel.
During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, this law school was closed. It was reestablished in Jakarta by the NICA on 21 June 1946 as a temporary university with the name Dutch; Flemish: Nood Universiteit (Emergency University). In 1947, the name Dutch; Flemish: Rechtshoogeschool te Batavia was changed to the Dutch; Flemish: Universiteit van Indonesië te Djakarta (University of Indonesia at Jakarta).
After the Indonesian National Revolution ended with transfer of sovereignty over the Dutch East Indies to Indonesia in 1949, the Dutch; Flemish: Universiteit van Indonesië te Djokjakarta moved from Yogyakarta to Jakarta and the two merged as the Dutch; Flemish: Universiteit Indonesia in 1950.
FH UI was in the world top 100 in QS World University Rankings by law and legal studies subject in 2022.[3]
FH UI's prestige and large class size have enabled it to graduate a large number of distinguished alumni.
Ahmad Fikri Assegaf, the co-founder of Assegaf Hamzah and Partners law firm, graduated from FH UI in 1992.[4] Her sister-in-law, Najwa Shihab, a journalist, is also a graduate of FH UI in 2000.[5]
Scholars who graduated from FH UI include Mardjono Reksodiputro, Maria Farida Indrati.[6]
Many FH UI alumni are leaders and innovator in the development of legal system in Indonesia. Delma Juzar, an actor who starred in several films directed by Usmar Ismail was a graduate of FH UI in 1955, and later known as the first generation lawyer in Indonesia who developed the first profit sharing contract in Indonesia and founded Wiriadinata and Saleh law offices along with Hoesein Wiriadinata.[7] Nurbani Yusuf, a film star who was a graduate of FH UI in 1976 and later was known as a lawyer who defended Sawito Kartowibowo.[8]
Melki Sedek Huang, an activist and sex offender who formerly served as Chairman of Student Executive Board at University of Indonesia, was a student of FH UI.[9]