By Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Political and criminal variations of an Indonesian Polity is a long term examine of the old adjustments of the Minangkabau polity of nagari, estate family members and the ever-changing dynamic relationships among Minangkabau matrilineal adat legislations, Islamic legislation and kingdom legislation. whereas the point of interest is at the interval because the fall of President Suharto in 1998, the publication charts a protracted background of political and felony modifications ahead of and after Indonesia's independence, within which the continuities are as impressive because the adjustments. It additionally throws gentle at the transnational tactics wherein criminal and political principles unfold and obtain new meanings. The multi-temporal historic method followed is additionally suitable to the extra normal discussions of the connection among anthropology and heritage, the production of commonplace legislation, identification development, and the anthropology of colonialism.
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The male lineage heads represented their lineages in the adat council. The adat council controlled the village territory (ulayat nagari); this was an important aspect of their authority and power. Changes in one strand of these multi-stranded relationships, whether induced by Islam, the state, or international agencies and NGOs, were always a potential threat to the nagari and its matrilineal structure as a whole. Changes in authority were likely to affect property relations and inheritance, and changes in property relations would inevitably have implications for political and administrative authority.
Sp=0&kota=13; accessed 7 March 2013). 23 See Bahar and Tadjoeddin 2004: 5, quoting from the analysis of the 2000 census by Suryadinata et al. 2003. The statistical yearbook of the province puts the population at 4,456,800 as of 2003 (BPS Sumatera Barat 2004: 43). 24 The Mentawai Islands along the coast of West Sumatra, under the administrative control of the West Sumatran government, have a completely different ethnic make-up, but we do not include them in this study. On decentralisation on the Mentawai Islands, see Eindhoven 2007.
39 It also comprised pre-Islamic Hindu-Buddhist and animistic elements. We use the term ‘adat law’ to refer to the specific legal elements within the wider category of adat. ; F. von Benda-Beckmann 1979: 114; Salmadanis and Duski Samad 2003: 25; Abna 2007: 31. 37 Snouck Hurgronje 1893: 16. See Vollenhoven 1928: 23. 38 Muntinghe, a former counsellor of Raffles, was the first to use it in a generic sense in 1817 (in his Memorandum to the Commissioners-General of the Netherlands-Indies, Batavia, 14/7/1817, cited in Sonius 1981: LI).