Hasanuddin Law Review
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2016

Land Tenure of the Malay People in North Sumatera: From Normative Trap to the Historical Denial

Edy Ikhsan (Faculty of Law, University of Sumatera Utara)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Dec 2016

Abstract

The following brief analysis is trying to look at the shifting mechanism of land rights of the Malay people from a historical perspective. The point of analysis stems from the description contained in the literature of customary laws produced by some academics and of the Dutch colonial officials. It subsequently runs using of some secondary materials and other colonial-based archives. The analysis finally concludes that in the span of nearly a half of a century, since the period of the Dutch, Japanese capitulation, the period of independence, the land rights of the Malay people has become a “toy play” of the ruling regimes, with all formulas being implemented in each period. The laws imposed upon this well-known fertile land have been successfully enriching the rulers and a wide range of business people with strong access to it.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

halrev

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Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

Hasanuddin Law Review (Hasanuddin Law Rev. - HALREV) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University. HALREV published three times a year in April, August, and December. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research ...