
Second, the terms of some statutes have changed in meaning over time to broaden criminal liability beyond that which the enacting legislature envisioned. For example, legislatures and courts have been struggling with assault weapon legislation, which must be both clear enough to meet due process concerns, and flexible enough to make it difficult to engineer new weapons around the statutory ban. First, some statutes contain concepts broad enough to respond to changing patterns of criminal conduct.


criminal statutes are interpreted dynamically. The interpretation of criminal statutes is constrained by special concerns of fair notice and separation of powers that would appear to make lenity a more appropriate approach than dynamism. One important recommendation of Kris with its all manifestations is that it has to be preserved as an asset of high cultural values through one person one Kris program.Įskridge's theory of dynamic statutory interpretation focuses largely on regulatory statutes and civil cases, but not on criminal statutes. A cultural fact has been identified�that it is the owners� ways of life in addition to their personal characteristics. There are a lot of registers related to its entity, which are of great difficulty for lay people to understand, except those who are really involved in the world of Kris, such as Kris masters (makers), parapsychologist, antiques collectors, cultural researchers to mention only a few.

Ethnolinguistic investigation revealed that Kris has significantly contributed to the lexical domain, hereinafter referred to as Kris Registers. A Kris may be viewed from its definition, magical charms, parts, elements, maintenance, symbolic values, philosophical meanings, production periods and legendary preservation. The current article examined some issues on�Kris, a traditional weapon of Indonesia as a high cultural heritage, which is up to now still preserved with all of its manifestations.
