Tody Sasmitha

Universitas Gadjah Mada | UGM · Department of Adat Law

Although legal and political discourse on the resurgence of the adat have developed significantly since the 1998 Indonesia Reform, attention to the mental health of the Indigenous Peoples of Indonesia, the adat community, remains low. On the other hand, psychological analysis of adat mental health also focuses less on how the socio-legal dynamic of...

The initiative to recognize and incorporate customary law into the state system is now a ubiquitous phenomenon. However, how and for what purposes such incorporation has to be performed is still a heated debate. Using the case of the Indonesian Bill of Criminal Code (BCC), this article examines how the government uses its law-making power to utiliz...

Rancangan KUHP yang baru mempromosikan ‘hukum yang hidup’ (hukum adat) sebagai dasar pemidanaan sekaligus memperluas pemaknaan atas asas legalitas. Insiasi ini juga menunjukkan upaya negara untuk melakukan inkorporasi hukum non-negara kedalam sistem hukum negara. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mendiskusikan dua hal. Pertama, bagaimana hukum yang hidup...

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 villag...

The position of adat court in Indonesia civil legal system has a long history. Distinction of public or private sphere would appear when adat court decisions in contact with national judicial system. Interaction between both systems isn’t ideal, either at the level of norms and practices. Unification policy of judiciary institution is one cause whi...