<![CDATA[The mindset of adat-based on rural communities in Indonesia is still confined within the scope of the ancient way of thinking. This makes the community tend to be indifferent to the village government which constitutionally has a role and function in managing and nurturing them in social life. The integration of customary institutions and the village government should be a solution of the polemic which is occurring amid in adat-based rural communities, especially in the case of protection of the customary forest. A study in Lekuk 50 Tumbi Lempur , Gunung Raya, Kerinci Regency in Jambi Province identified that adat-based rural communities had more tendency to follow a policy issued by the village government if those policies had been agreed by adat stakeholders with existing customary procedures. This is based on a fundamental reason that is because long before the village was touched by the Law on the village, the adat holders had already inculcated traditional values in people's lives. This paper presents the efforts of the village government to give a new understanding to the community that the village government has more rights than adat holders in terms of taking care of the community in all aspects of life.]]>
Copyrights © 2019
