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The document discusses the origins of law in Indonesia. It begins with law starting within families, with the father as head of the family. Groups of families would then choose leaders for their tribes. Tribal chiefs made laws to govern interactions between clans and punish rule breakers. Tribal laws were unwritten. The Dutch then introduced European laws in 1824 and divided the population into groups with separate laws: Europeans, natives, and foreign orientals. Adat law is based on the customs and traditi

Author

Aisyah Kahar

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