<![CDATA[This study aims to analyze how both systems engage in dialectics to address the challenges of substantive gender justice and sociological issues, such as gender ratios and higher female life expectancy. Utilizing a normative legal research method with a comparative approach, this study examines legal flexibility instruments as solutions that do not abandon patrilineal principles. The results indicate that Islamic law in Indonesia takes a distributive path by optimizing grants (hibah) and mandates (wasiat) to balance women's economic rights. Meanwhile, Balinese Hindu customary law employs a transformation of juridical status through the institution of sentana rajeg and nyeburin marriage to establish women as primary heirs. The fundamental difference lies in the focus of flexibility: Islam modifies the distribution of property objects, whereas Balinese Hindu law re-engineers the status of the legal subject. This study concludes that such flexibility is a manifestation of ijtihad and local wisdom in achieving welfare (maslahah) without undermining the theological foundations of each legal system.]]>
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