Impediments to Establishing Adat Villages

A Socio-Legal Examination of the Indonesian Village Law

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ID2976113
AuthorsTody Sasmitha Jiwa Utama (0000-0002-7315-4495, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume21
Issue1
Pages17-33
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442213.2019.1670240
OpenAlexW2990486270
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited25

As adat revivalism has begun to influence regulatory, legal and administrative outcomes in Indonesia, adat (tradition or custom) has also found a place in one of the largest policy reforms reshaping Indonesia’s local governance systems: the Village Law. The 2014 Village Law includes a specific mechanism for villages to be recognised as ‘adat villages’. However, five years after promulgating this law, no adat villages have yet been completely established. In this article I take a socio-legal approach to examine the challenges of adat village establishment. A case study in South Kalimantan illustrates how the district government utilised the flaws in the legislation to undermine a customary community’s demand for recognition and to justify the stagnation of adat village establishment in their area. In a broader context, adat recognition through the 2014 Village Law tends to incorporate adat into the existing administrative village, instead of empowering the adat communities

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