Meetings and minutes
Spaces of lawmaking and legal translation in colonial Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22729740 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sanne Ravensbergen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 736-759 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4634 • E-ISSN: 1474-0680 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022463423000711 |
| OpenAlex | W4393435087 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Central to this article are the minutes of nine codification meetings held in 1865 at various locations in West Sumatra. During these meetings the draft regulations for a new colonial legal system were discussed and negotiated by West Sumatran elites and Dutch officials. This episode and its unique archives serve as a microhistory of lawmaking, legal translation, and erasure. The article argues that the process of making colonialism procedural, as well as the genealogical workings of colonial knowledge production, are crucial to understanding the making and unmaking of law in the context of legal pluralities. It shows that finding similarities in interests and worldview, moments of ‘erasure through translation’, the symbolic language of fluidity of adat and legal hybridity, as well as the archival power of the material and the spatial elements of both the meetings and the minutes, were vehicles through which codification in West Sumatra was attempted and contested.
Colonialism · Lawmaking · Legislature · Political science · Translation (biology) · Asian Studies and History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Studies and Policies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |