Implementing problem based learning and changging the curriculum at the faculty of law: challenges and creative solutions

To strength the legal education in Indonesia in order to achieve not only the development of law in local and national but also more international basis, improving continually the content or substance of legal material is very important. However, the role of legal method (teaching and learning method) is undoubtedly influencing the improvement of quality legal education. The Problem Based Learning (PBL) as part of the Student Centered Learning (SCL) can be considered as an effective method to escalate the legal knowledge, legal skill and curiosity of students as well as to stimulate students to become more active in class upon particular legal issues determined in the guidance books or known as course books. Various obstacles in implementing this active learning model can be solved through creative solutions that appropriate with surrounding circumstances.