Analyze the Usage of Legal Definitions in Indonesian Regulation Using Text Mining Case Study: Treasury and Budget Law

Abstract

Legal definitions are an integral part of legal drafting practice to understand legal documents easily and prevent ambiguity. This research aims to describe how legal definitions are used among regulations in the domain of Indonesian Treasury and Budget. Simple text mining techniques are used to perform and deliver the process. We extracted definitions from more than 1.362 related regulations enacted through the period 2003–2020. We found that legal definitions were used in many variations which may lead to inconsistencies.