JOURNAL OF LAW & LEGAL REFORM VOLUME 1(1) 2019 1 © Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Published by Postgraduate Program, Master of Laws, Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia EDITORIAL COMMENTARY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LEGAL REFORM IN INDONESIA AND GLOBAL CONTEXT: HOW THE LAW RESPONDS TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT? Indah Sri Utari 1 , Ridwan Arifin 2 1 Journal of Law & Legal Reform, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia 2 Department of Criminal Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia  law.journal@mail.unnes.ac.id, indahsuji@mail.unnes.ac.id HOW TO CITE Utari, I.S., & Arifin, R. (2019). Law Enforcement and Legal Reform in Indonesia and Global Context: How the Law Responds to Community Development?. Journal of Law and Legal Reform, 1(1), 1-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15294/law & legal reform.v1i1.35772 ABSTRACT Law enforcement in Indonesia has its own complexities, as law reform which has its challenges. The first edition of the Journal of Law and Legal Reform presents ten articles relating to law enforcement and law reform in various sectors. In general, this edition tries to look at various facts that occur in the community, where in a number of legal cases considered unable to respond to rapid developments in the community. Keywords: law, legal reform, law enforcement If you’re in favour of any policy—reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever—if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature. Noam Chomsky The development of law in the global sphere gives a lot of influence in many sectors, as well as in Indonesia. The dynamics of legal cases and their resolution gives the impression that society is developing so quickly and unexpectedly, while the law is lagging behind. In some cases, it is very apparent that the law has not been able to