Fathurokhman, Ferry (2013) Ancestral Tradition, Social Control, and Sanctions in South Banten: '1001 Rules of the Wiwitan Polity' (Part 1). Human and Socio-Environmental Studies (26). pp. 97-124. ISSN 1881-5545

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Abstract

Today, many ethnic group in Indonesia are bound to traditional kinship and/or territorial system (adats), which structure social groups and constitute operational traditional legal system. Since pre-colonial Malayo-Polynesian legal tradition (adats) in Indonesia seem to have certain element in common, we hope to demonstrate the continuity o such legal tradition by describing the working mechanism of such traditional social control structure among Baduy people (we prefer Baduy community in South-Banten. Baduy social control is constructed on the principle that harmful behavior, whether of a religious, civil or a criminal nature in western terms, has caused an imbalanced to the cosmic and social order.

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