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.
Facts
Example Jurisdictions Primary Source of Law Classification
Legal Family Law of Indonesia
Connections
In Legal Family
Entity-backed identity for the legal family value this legal-system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a legal-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
In Legal System
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.
Includes
Source Anwar Usman (Wikipedia)
Source Bagir Manan (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Constitutional Court of Indonesia
Source Hikmahanto Juwana - Wikipedia
Source Jawahir Thontowi, Wikipedia
Source Wikidata: Maria Farida Indrati
Source Maria Ulfah Santoso (Wikipedia)
Source Muhammad Hatta Ali (Wikipedia)
Source Provisional Constitution of 1950 (Wikipedia)
Source Saldi Isra, Wikipedia
Source Sri Widoyati (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Suhartoyo
Source Sunarto (judge) - Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Indonesia, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Law of Indonesia
The law of Indonesia is based on a civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and Dutch lawView the Source 2. Law of Indonesia (Wikipedia)
Section: history
Following independence in 1945, Indonesia began to form its own modern Indonesian law, modifying existing precepts.
Section: Constitution
The 1945 Constitution is the highest legal instrument in Indonesia, to which the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government must defer.
Introduction, jurisdictions using it
The law of Indonesia is based on a civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and Dutch law.
View the SourceList of national legal systems (Wikipedia)
In Group: Civil and Sharia Law Hybrid Systems, Civil law and sharia law table: Indonesia rowView the Source Wikipedia: Constitutional Court of Indonesia
Includes: Constitutional Court of Indonesia, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Constitutional Court of Indonesia, Lead section
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Mahkamah Konstitusi Republik Indonesia, MKRI or MK) is one of the apex courts in Indonesia along with the Indonesian Supreme Court.
Saldi Isra, Wikipedia
Includes: Saldi Isra, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Saldi Isra, Wikipedia lead sentence
is an Indonesian jurist and law professor
Anwar Usman (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Anwar Usman, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Anwar Usman, Wikipedia lead sentence
is an Indonesian jurist who served as the sixth Chief Ju
Sunarto (judge) - Wikipedia
Includes: Sunarto, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Sunarto, Wikipedia lead sentence
is an Indonesian jurist who serves as the
Bagir Manan (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Bagir Manan, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Bagir Manan, Wikipedia lead sentence
is an Indonesian jurist who served as Chief Justice of t
Hikmahanto Juwana - Wikipedia
Includes: Hikmahanto Juwana, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Hikmahanto Juwana, Wikipedia lead sentence
is an Indonesian international law professor
Jawahir Thontowi, Wikipedia
Includes: Jawahir Thontowi, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Jawahir Thontowi, Wikipedia lead sentence
is an Indonesian legal scholar
Maria Ulfah Santoso (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Maria Ulfah Santoso, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Maria Ulfah Santoso, Wikipedia lead sentence
was an Indonesian politician and women
Provisional Constitution of 1950 (Wikipedia)
Includes: Provisional Constitution of 1950, Infobox field jurisdictionView the Source Wikidata: Suhartoyo
Includes: Suhartoyo, Wikipedia category: 21st-century Indonesian judgesView the Source Wikidata: Maria Farida Indrati
Includes: Maria Farida Indrati, Wikipedia category: Indonesian women academicsView the Source Sri Widoyati (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Sri Widoyati Wiratmo Soekito, IntroductionQuote, Includes: Sri Widoyati Wiratmo Soekito, Introduction
Sri Widoyati (1929-1982) was the first woman appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Indonesia, which occurred in 1968.
Muhammad Hatta Ali (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Muhammad Hatta Ali, IntroductionQuote, Includes: Muhammad Hatta Ali, Introduction
Muhammad Hatta Ali is the thirteenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia.
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