{"id":24123,"date":"2024-01-02T15:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T08:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.ugm.ac.id\/?p=24123"},"modified":"2024-12-13T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:43:57","slug":"research-and-teaching-project-proyek-untuk-inovasi-pembelajaran-hukum-adat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.ugm.ac.id\/en\/research-and-teaching-project-proyek-untuk-inovasi-pembelajaran-hukum-adat\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and Teaching Project: Project for Innovation of Teaching Adat Law (PINTAL)"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can legal education in Indonesia become more relevant for graduates who will work in contexts of legal pluralism, aiming for social justice and providing legal services that common citizens need?<\/em><\/p>\n

Proyek PINTAL adalah kolaborasi antara peneliti-peneliti dari Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI) yang fokus mengkaji tentang Indonesia dan Fakultas Hukum Universitas Gadjah Mada yang mengajar hukum adat atau terlibat dalam penelitian tentang hukum adat, pluralisme hukum serta hukum dan masyarakat. PINTAL adalah akronim dari proyek ini, namun juga dalam Bahasa Indonesia, pintal berarti \u201cberputar<\/em>\u201d. Proyek kolaborasi ini bertujuan agar para peneliti \u201cmemutar\u201d penelitian dan proyek kepenulisan mereka ke dalam satu kabel kuat yang akan mendukung inovasi pendidikan hukum di Indonesia.\u00a0 Selain itu, keberadaan proyek ini juga sekaligus mendukung Sustainable Development Goals<\/em> (SDGs) khususnya poin ke 4 yaitu Pendidikan Berkualitas. Proyek ini akan dilaksanakan dari tahun 2023 sampai dengan tahun 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Follow-up of SLEEI<\/b><\/p>\n

The project Strengthening Legal Education in Eastern Indonesia (SLEEI, 2019-2022) focused on 5 themes including \u201claw in local context\u201d. Adat (Customary) law is important in the daily lives of many Indonesians and a main constituent of \u2018law in local context\u2019 which refers to the local mix resulting from legal pluralism in a specific area. Meanwhile, in Indonesian Law Faculties teaching about adat law is commonly done in a doctrinal style, as a single subject, with emphasis on the structure of this legal system, definitions of the central concepts, the internal rules and their consistency and ample attention to how all this was developed in the past (Simarmata<\/a>, 2018 ). The blind spots in this approach include how adat works in present day societies, and how it articulates with other normative systems.<\/p>\n

A second approach in SLEEI was not to just focus on improving the mandatory adat law courses, but instead regard \u2018law in local context\u201d from the perspective of socio legal studies. Experience in SLEEI indicated that in the regions in Eastern Indonesia law graduates are working in all kinds of positions in and outside the government where they face the increasing societal problems that call for tailor-made solutions in the field of law, for example land acquisition by large extractive industries, but also changing perceptions on how to solve disputes within families. Law graduates need the capacity to see which norms and rules are most prominent locally, and which institutions are most active in keeping local peace and justice. The picture shows legal pluralism, a mixture of state law, customary law, religious law, and rules and norms from other sources like big companies, and international treaties that are known locally through direct communication or via social media.<\/p>\n

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PINTAL\u2019s challenge<\/b><\/p>\n

In this second line of thought, the challenge in innovating legal education is to find a way to teach about \u201clocal law\u201d (hukum lokal). Legal education on local law requires sound understanding of what legal pluralism is and skills to be able to see what the various normative systems entail and how they articulate. In depth knowledge about adat law in general and historically is still required, while it should be enhanced with research on how adat law in specific areas has changed and to which extent (and which fields of local life) its norms and rules are respected.<\/p>\n

Innovation towards a law and society approach is not a matter of ideology but a societal necessity given the character of the many new issues and problems that common Indonesian citizens in the whole country face and for which they need help from experts educated at Law Faculties.<\/p>\n

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PINTAL activities<\/b><\/p>\n

PINTAL is a two year project aimed at opening up the discussions on legal education in the field of adat law as part of a wider movement towards a law and society approach. Planned activities are: <\/span>pendidikan hukum di bidang hukum adat sebagai bagian dari gerakan yang lebih luas menuju pendekatan hukum dan masyarakat. Kegiatan-kegiatan yang direncanakan antara lain:<\/p>\n