Dr. Vidya Prahassacitta is an Indonesian legal scholar and practising advocate specialising in criminal law, criminal justice policy, anti-corruption law, corporate criminal liability, cybercrime, freedom of expression, comparative law, and legal research methodology. Her academic work combines doctrinal analysis, comparative perspectives, jurisprudential inquiry, and practical insight derived from legal practice. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws, and Doctorate in Law from Universitas Indonesia. Her scholarship addresses the formulation and limits of criminal policy, particularly in relation to extraordinary crimes, illicit enrichment, private-sector bribery, corruption offences, and corporate criminal responsibility. Her notable works include The Concept of Extraordinary Crime in the Indonesian Legal System: Is the Concept an Effective Criminal Policy?; The Criminalisation of Illicit Enrichment in Indonesian Corruption Law: A Comparative Study with Australia; Criminal Law Policy on Bribery in the Private Sector: A Comparison of Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea; Corporate Criminal Liability in Corruption Offences; and Questioning the Criminal Liability of PT IM2 in a Corruption Case. Dr. Prahassacitta has also written extensively on digital communication and civil liberties. Her publications in this field include Criminal Disinformation in Relation to Freedom of Expression in Indonesia: A Critical Study; The Criminalisation of Fake News: A Critique of Indonesia’s New Penal Code; Disparities in the Protection of Freedom of Expression under the Electronic Information and Transactions Law; Citizen Journalism in Cyber Media: Protection and Legal Responsibility under Indonesian Press Law; and Indonesia’s Digital Policy against the Distribution of Information Disorder: A Better Policy for a Sustainable Society. Her broader academic interests encompass human dignity in criminal proceedings, constitutional adjudication, labour law, electronic courts, press freedom, correctional institutions, theories of justice, and legal research methods. These interests are reflected in works such as Human Dignity in the Criminal Process: Lessons from a Torture Case in Germany; Between a Fair and Speedy Trial: E-Court during the Pandemic and the Challenges of Society 5.0; The Meaning of Justice in John Rawls’s Philosophy; and Normative Legal Research and Juridical Legal Research. Through her scholarship and professional practice, Dr. Prahassacitta contributes to the development of Indonesian criminal law and to contemporary debates concerning corruption, digital regulation, procedural justice, human rights, and the appropriate scope of criminal-law intervention.
