Jurnal Hukum Volkgeist https://jurnal-umbuton.ac.id/index.php/Volkgeist <p style="text-align: justify;">Jurnal Hukum Volkgeist has a focus to provide a venue for academicians, researchers, and practitioners for publishing the original research articles or review articles. It is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, published by Faculty of Law, Muhammadiyah University of Buton. The journal is a biannual which is published on June and December. Articles submitted might cover topical issues in Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Criminal Law, Islamic Law, Civil Law, International Law, Agrarian Law, Adat Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Commercial Law, Administrative Law, Environmental Law and so forth which related to the Science of Law.&nbsp;</p> Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat en-US Jurnal Hukum Volkgeist 2528-360X <div class="page">An author who publishes in&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;Jurnal Hukum Volkgeist</strong>&nbsp;agrees to the following terms:</div> <div class="page"> <ul> <li>Author retains the copyright and grants Jurnal Hukum Volkgeist the right of first publication of the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal</li> <li>The author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book) with the acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>The author is permitted and encouraged to post his/her work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of the published work (See&nbsp;<a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</li> </ul> Read more about the Creative Commons&nbsp;Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence here:&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/</a>.</div> State Authority In The Digital Society And E-Commerce Regulation https://jurnal-umbuton.ac.id/index.php/Volkgeist/article/view/7457 <p><em>This study critically analyzes the role of the state in the digital society through e-commerce policy, focusing on Indonesia’s Minister of Trade Regulation No. 31 of 2023. Using a normative juridical method with regulatory inventory, systematic legal norm analysis, legal interpretation, and normative evaluation approaches, the research examines how this regulation addresses the transformation of trade activities in the digital era. The findings reveal that the regulation affirms the state's dual role as regulator and protector within the digital ecosystem by stipulating business licensing requirements for domestic and foreign actors, enforcing consumer protection, implementing affirmative policies for MSMEs, regulating electronic advertising, and strengthening law enforcement against violations. The study’s novelty lies in its integrative analysis combining juridical and public policy perspectives, highlighting that effective e-commerce governance requires synergy between digital law frameworks, business actors’ digital literacy, and strengthened institutional capacity of the state to ensure an inclusive, fair, and sustainable digital ecosystem. It recommends enhancing business actors' literacy on digital legal compliance and bolstering state institutional capacities in supervision and enforcement to maximize the strategic objectives of e-commerce policies, thereby supporting Indonesia's digital sovereignty and economic transformation.</em></p> Rohmad Suryadi Lusi Oktaviana Herwiyanto Herwiyanto Nunik Nurhayati Copyright (c) 2025 Rohmad Suryadi, Lusi Oktaviana, Herwiyanto Herwiyanto, Nunik Nurhayati http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 2025-06-30 2025-06-30 9 2 10.35326/volkgeist.v9i2.7457