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Islamic Courts in Indonesia

A Study in the Political Bases of Legal Institutions

In recent years national civil courts have begun to interpret local customary
inheritance law more freely, imposing more uniform ... inheritance law, see A. A.
Fyzee, "The Fatamid Law of Inheritance," University of Malaya Law Review 1 (
1959/1).

Legal Evolution and Political Authority in Indonesia

Selected Essays

For nearly forty years, following the collapse of Indonesia's parliamentary system, Indonesia's once independent legal institutions were transformed into dedicated instruments of a powerful elite and allowed to sink into a deep mire of corruption and malfeasance. Legal process was devastated far beyond the capacity of any simple effort at reconstruction by post-Suharto governments. Indonesia's problems in this respect surpass those of other countries in the region compelled by economic crisis to re-examine institutional structures. The works reprinted in this collection constitute a case study over time of legal decay and the rise of reform interests in one of the most complex countries in the world. Written during a period of more than thirty years, beginning in the early 1960s, the essays trace several themes in the legal history of modern Indonesia. They make clear, however, that legal history is seldom that alone, but rather, like law itself, is largely derivative, fundamentally imbedded in the interest, ideas, purposes, and contentions of local political, social, and economic power.

In 1970 the government of Indonesia promulgated a new law on the principles of
judicial organization. The debates over this law gave rise to a significant and
enduring conflict between various forces over the Indonesian constitution - not
the ...