The Leiden Legacy: Concepts of Law in Indonesia

by Burns, Peter

• ISBN13: 9789067181754
• ISBN10: 9067181757
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Abstract	xv
Preliminary notes on method, conventions and translation	xvii
Section One MAKING THE MYTH
I The protagonist and the key issue	1	(42)
The setting: the time and the place	1	(1)
The theory and the major issue	2	(11)
Miskenningen van het adatrecht	13	(7)
A decade of debate: drawing up for battle	20	(2)
De Indonesiër en zijn grond	22	(12)
Digression: on the extent of the kring	34	(9)
II Origin of the problem	43	(24)
The source of law	43	(3)
The constitutional monarchy	46	(1)
The colonial estate	47	(11)
Aborted rationalizations	58	(4)
The intellectual commitment	62	(5)
III Polemics; Land rights? Or het recht van het land?	67	(24)
The bureaucratic response: Nolst Trenité	67	(5)
General polemics	72	(5)
The Leiden-Utrecht controversy	77	(14)
IV After 1925; A sort of recognition	91	(18)
Constitutional revision: removal of repugnancy	92	(4)
Separating the judicial power	96	(4)
Details in the history of the political victory	100	(1)
The Agrarian Commission	101	(6)
The environment (the forests) as an issue	107	(2)
V Elaboration of the Leiden doctrines I	109	(24)
Adjustment	110	(1)
Digression: conceptual analysis of punishment	111	(3)
The Oriental opposed to the Occidental	114	(7)
Adjustment involving injury or killing	121	(3)
Adjustment without suffering: cash and the selamatan	124	(6)
Group responsibility: land rights and land accountability	130	(3)
VI Elaboration of the Leiden doctrines II	133	(18)
The Rejang	133	(1)
Jujur marriage: the views of the colonial officers	134	(1)
Hazairin's apologia	135	(11)
The significance of Hazairin's representation	146	(5)
VII Elaboration of the Leiden doctrines III	151	(32)
Tribunals of separate jurisdiction	151	(5)
The superior tribunal and judicial review	156	(5)
Forums of privilege and hierarchies of laws	161	(2)
The indigenous system	163	(2)
The swapraja system	165	(4)
The Islamic tribunals	169	(3)
Village tribunals	172	(1)
Cases of conflict among jural communities	173	(10)
Section Two DISMANTLING THE MYTH
VIII Retrospective criticism; The myth	183	(24)
Critical questions from Utrecht	184	(5)
Right of allocation: collective responsibility	189	(4)
Internal criticism: Roest on the guilt factor	193	(6)
Internal criticism: Ter Haar's decision doctrine	199	(1)
Digression: the theses of Legal Realism	200	(7)
IX The deep structure of the Leiden ideology	207	(20)
The gaps in the theory	207	(2)
Indigenous practice and colonial administration	209	(13)
An Indonesian rationalist reviews the idea of adat	222	(2)
Sonius: the last Leidenaar	224	(1)
Bushar Muhammad: an Indonesian jurist	225	(1)
An Asian nation identified on the authority of a central European jurist	226	(1)
X The European roots of Indonesian nationhood	227	(26)
The German Legal History School	227	(5)
Von Savigny	232	(2)
Relations between the Hegelians and the Legal History School	234	(2)
The struggle for adatrecht: a second legal history school	236	(2)
The learning of the Indonesian Leidenaren	238	(4)
Supomo: an Asian synthesis of Hegel and Von Savigny	242	(7)
Adat as sacred national myth	249	(4)
XI Conclusion and continuity	253	(12)
Conflict and consensus in the kampung	253	(8)
En klaar is Cees	261	(4)
Appendices
I Article 62 RR 1854-1870 & Draft Amendment 1918	265	(2)
II Draft Amendment Article 71 IS	267	(1)
III Selamatan as adjustment in adatrecht	268	(5)
1. Reconciliation after murder in Bengkulu (1914)	268	(1)
2. Reconciliation after murder or manslaughter in the Lampungs (1933-1934)	269	(4)
Bibliography	273	(22)
Index	295