摘要:This article aims to examine (a) the settlement of Madurese community heritage dispute among legal pluralism;(b) the Madurese consideration which tends to apply adat law based on the consensus principle of inheritance disputes. The enactment of Indonesian Law Number 3 year 2006,which provides absolute competence to the Shari’ah Courts in resolving first level cases among Moslems in the field of inheritance was not followed by the increase interest of Madurese to settle inheritance dispute in the Shari’ah Court. They prefer settling such disputes outside the court. This is a socio-legal research. The results shows that Madurese prefer adat law as the basis of inheritance dispute resolution rather than the state law. The consideration of Madurese to is to maintain harmony and to bind kinship relations between parties. On the other hand,they lack of understanding on civil or shari’ah court procedural law as well as the high expense if choosing a dispute resolution through court.
其他摘要:Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji (a) penyelesaian sengketa warisan masyarakat Madura di tengah pluralisme hukum;dan (b) pertimbangan masyarakat Madura lebih memilih hukum adat yang menggunakan prinsip musyawarah dalam penyelesaian sengketa warisan. Di
关键词:legal pluralism;inheritance disputes;Madurese society