DOI: https://doi.org/10.14710/mmh.54.3.2025.%25p

POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF THE RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN INDONESIA

*Sukirno Sukirno orcid scopus  -  Faculty of Law, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia
Muhammad Fahad Malik orcid  -  Faculty of Law, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Pakistan
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The recognition of customary rights has continued to be problematic since the Dutch colonial era. During the Dutch East Indies administration, the legal policy on the recognition of customary rights was autonomous with the Agrarisch Wet and Agrarisch Besluit recognizing customary rights only on cultivated land. During the Old Order, the policy became repressive with the requirement that indigenous communities must first be recognized. Meanwhile, during the New Order era, it became highly repressive, eliminating the recognition of customary rights in the field. This study highlights the current legal policy on the recognition of customary rights and its reform to create justice. This study uses a doctrinal analysis method. The novelty of this study is that it places the legal politics of recognition of customary rights as responsive by involving indigenous peoples in the formulation of regulations and policies, as well as classifying indigenous peoples into vulnerable groups and adding a profit-sharing scheme between indigenous peoples and investors. This approach is expected to strengthen the recognition of the customary rights of indigenous peoples in Indonesia.

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Keywords: Customary Rights; Legal Policy; Vulnerable Groups; Responsive

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