Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity - The Nagari From Colonisation to Decentralisation

This book explores the relationships between matrilineal, Islamic and state law, and investigates the dynamics of legal pluralism, governance and property relationships.

List of contents

1. Towards an anthropological understanding of political and legal change; 2. The pre-colonial nagari; 3. Minangkabau under colonial government; 4. Japanese occupation, independence and postcolonial transformation until 1983; 5. Centralised government at its zenith; 6. Reformasi: constitutional reforms and regional autonomy; 7. Creating new nagari structures; 8. The return to the nagari: smooth transitions; 9. Uneasy transformations; 10. Governing the village; 11. New dynamics in property rights; 12. Never ending disputes; 13. Property law reconstituted - uncertainty perpetuated; 14. Old issues revisited: adat, Islam and Minangkabau identity politics; 15. Decentralisation, the transformation of the nagari and the dynamics of legal pluralism: some conclusions.

About the author

Franz von Benda-Beckmann is a research affiliate of the Department of Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. Until 2012, he co-headed the Project Group Legal Pluralism, with Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, at this institute. He is an honorary professor of the universities of Leipzig and Halle.Keebet von Benda-Beckmann is a research affiliate of the Department of Law and Anthropology of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. Until 2012, she co-headed the Project Group Legal Pluralism, with Franz von Benda-Beckmann, at this institute. She is an honorary professor of the universities of Leipzig and Halle.

Summary

This long-term study of the transformation of the Minangkabau polity of nagari from early colonisation to democratic decentralisation explores the dynamic relationships between Minangkabau matrilineal adat law, Islamic law and state law, and provides important insights for students of legal pluralism, law and religion, legal engineering and decentralisation.

Product details

• Authors: Franz von Benda Beckmann, Franz Von Benda-Beckmann, Franz Von Benda-Beckmann Benda-Beckmann, Franz Von Von Benda-Beckmann Benda-Beckmann, Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann, Benda-Beckmann Franz von, Benda-Beckmann Keebet von
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2016
• EAN: 9781316618530
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61853-0
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Politics and government, Indonesia, Sociology & anthropology, Black & Asian Studies, Law and society, sociology of law