Indonesian law rests on a civil law system inherited in large part from Dutch colonial rule, blended with the country's own local customary law, known as adat. Before European colonization began in the sixteenth century, Indonesia's indigenous kingdoms governed themselves under their own adat law, itself shaped by earlier contact with India, China and the Middle East. Some communities keep distinct legal traditions within the national system: the Acehnese in Sumatra observe their own sharia law, while the Toraja people of Sulawesi still follow an animistic customary law.
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Family classification carried over from this entity's own recorded SubLabel (Mixed and Hybrid Legal Systems), assigned under the section-legal-systems structure wave (ruling 761) using the CIA World Factbook / JuriGlobe comparative-law family classification (system.Atlas.DataBrief, law). This edge materializes that existing classification as a connective fact; it is not a new independent research finding.
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