legal-terms indonesia
Statute Book vs. Government Gazette
<p>Try to find the translation of Indonesian term "Lembaran Negara" which means 'a piece of paper where all government regulations are promulgated. A regulation is considered valid if it is put on the Lembaran Negara.</p>

<p>Is this concept the same with "statute book" which means ‘the collection, chronologically, of statutes approved by the legislative body of the country forming the legal code’? Is a bill considered as an official regulations only if it has been written in the statute book? Or statute book is merely a compilation of legal code? And what about government gazette? Do those terms share the same concept?</p>

<p>Statute Book has closer meaning to <code>Lembaran Negara</code>. There is some confusion when we are speaking about <code>Lembaran Negara</code> because in Dutch we called it <code>Staatsblad</code> or <code>Official Gazette</code> in English. Meanwhile, the term of <code>Official Gazette</code> in Indonesia is <code>Berita Negara</code> or <code>De Javasche Courant</code>.</p>

<p>The concept is not very similar. <code>Berita Negara</code> used by the government to announce the regulation that has been approved and also other events such as the establishment of a company, Indonesian citizenship, etc. <code>Lembaran Negara</code> used only to announced new regulation.</p>
