This study visualizes Scopus indexed open-access publications in the areas of environmental regulation and perception for the period between 2000 and 2025, and makes sense of their intellectual structure through the lens of governance-perception-legitimacy. A total of 13,100 records constituted the final corpus. Both performance analysis and VOSviewer science mapping were used to explore publications growth, collaboration, bibliographic coupling, source citation, and author-keyword networks. The Literature on environmental regulation and perception increased rapidly since 2016, and this Literature is biased towards sustainability and energy journals as well as in China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Western Europe. The work is organized around four closely related subject clusters: Regulatory Reform and Innovation; ESG and Corporate Social Responsibility; Digital Governance and Public Participation; and Justice- Oriented Scholarship. Their interplay shows how the study of the topic has shifted from being viewed as one concerned primarily with technical or legal instruments toward an emphasis on the notion of a governance process in which the viability and enduring value of environmental regulation must reflect perceptions about its effectiveness, fairness, trust, accountability and meaningfully engagement. However, evidence for geographic and outlet asymmetry implies that the pool from which the currently prominent interpretations of legitimacy and compliance arise may be limited. From the perspective of public administration, the present results show transparency and meaningful engagement are most influential where and when they can be associated with clear policy implementation, readily available evidence of administrative respondability, and verified policy outcomes. When formal policy is embodied into tangible, accessible, and procedural responsive governance, environmental regulation is more expected to sustain publics support.
This study examines how Islamic criminal law is reconfigured within Indonesia’s contemporary legal system amid the interaction between Islamic legal authority, state governance, and legal pluralism. The study addresses the problem of how Islamic criminal law is negotiated, adapted, and legitimised within a constitutional and democratic state in which state law, Islamic norms, and socio-cultural practices coexist. Employing an empirical qualitative design, the study combines socio-legal analysis of relevant legislation, policy documents, and institutional practices with semi-structured interviews involving three informants selected for their knowledge and experience of Islamic law and legal governance. The collected data were analysed thematically through the framework of maqāṣid al-sharīʿah, focusing on the extent to which contemporary legal configurations protect fundamental human interests and promote justice, public welfare, and social order. The findings demonstrate that the contemporary position of Islamic criminal law in Indonesia is shaped not by direct transplantation of classical penal norms but by processes of negotiation among religious authorities, state institutions, and societal actors. The empirical evidence further indicates that Islamic legal principles are selectively accommodated within state governance when they are considered compatible with constitutional principles and public interests. From a maqāṣid al-sharīʿah perspective, this reconfiguration reflects an adaptive process in which the substantive objectives of Islamic criminal law may be preserved through institutional and legal forms that differ from their classical formulations. The study concludes that legal pluralism provides a dynamic space for reconciling Islamic normative authority with constitutional governance, provided that such adaptation remains oriented towards justice, public welfare, and the protection of fundamental human interests.
This study examines how policy network structures shape collaborative governance in rural tourism development in West Java, Indonesia. Responding to the weak integration of collaborative governance and policy network analysis, it proposes an asymmetric mediated collaboration model to explain why formal multi-actor participation remains government-centred. Using an explanatory qualitative case study, the research draws on 46 semi-structured interviews and 215 online media articles collected through Google News with the keywords “Pariwisata Desa” and “Jawa Barat.” Interview and media data were analyzed through thematic coding in NVivo 12 Plus, InfraNodus-based text-network mapping, actor-visibility analysis, and triangulation. The findings show that government actors dominate coordination and media visibility, while village governments and Pokdarwis remain central to implementation but peripheral in strategic decisions. Media operates as a discursive arena and governance mediator that amplifies official agendas. The study contributes by linking centrality, visibility, capacity distribution, and brokerage to collaboration quality. It recommends shared decision forums, village capacity-building, balanced media protocols, and clearer private-sector partnership mechanisms.
This study examines uneven education governance in Indonesia’s peripheral regions, with Puncak Jaya as its focal case. It investigates how geographical remoteness, limited connectivity, and security-related uncertainty shape the practical feasibility of implementing standardized education policies. Drawing on publicly available statistical publications, government documents, and relevant scholarly literature, the study shows that these conditions can constrain personnel mobility, administrative coordination, information flows, teacher deployment, and service continuity. Rather than interpreting uneven outcomes as evidence of individual bureaucratic failure, the analysis argues that bureaucratic professionalism in peripheral and conflict-affected settings must be understood in relation to the institutional and territorial conditions in which public services are delivered. Professionalism therefore includes not only procedural compliance and technical competence, but also transparent judgment, risk awareness, and accountable adaptation. The study contributes to debates on subnational governance by demonstrating the limitations of uniform reform expectations across highly differentiated service environments. It recommends context-responsive institutional support, feasible teacher-deployment arrangements, strengthened connectivity and information systems, and adaptive yet accountable mechanisms to sustain education services in peripheral regions.
This study examines how and why gaps emerge between nationally mandated public service standards and their operational implementation at the Kendari City Public Service Mall (PSM), Indonesia. Employing a qualitative evaluative design, the study used seven regulatory service-standard dimensions as diagnostic benchmarks to identify discrepancies between formal requirements and practice and to examine the mechanisms underlying them. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, participatory observations, and document analysis involving 18 purposively selected structural officials, frontline personnel, and service users. The findings reveal uneven rather than uniformly weak implementation: formal standards are generally established, but their operational realization varies across service processes. Persistent gaps include service delays, incomplete digital integration, inconsistent information, limitations in accessibility for vulnerable users, and weak complaint follow-up. These discrepancies are shaped by interacting mechanisms involving administrative capacity, inter-agency coordination, operational integration, and frontline adaptation. Physical centralization improves perceived convenience, but does not necessarily produce organizational or operational integration. Frontline adaptation can mitigate immediate service disruptions while also sustaining incomplete implementation arrangements. Theoretically, the study shows that policy–practice gaps in integrated public services emerge through interactions among administrative capacity, bureaucratic connectivity, operational integration, and frontline adaptation, distinguishing formal integration from substantive operational realization. Practically, the findings suggest that strengthening PSM implementation requires greater cross-agency connectivity, synchronized procedures, digital and administrative capacity, and mechanisms that translate frontline adaptations into organizational learning.
