REALITAS MASYARAKAT ADAT DI INDONESIA: SEBUAH REFLEKSI
ABSTRACT: Adat Community
around the globe particularly in Indonesia is facing a massive problem. This
phenomenon refers to two cardinal issues namely: the willingness of the
government to recogize their rights and existence, and how to maximizing their
participation in national development programs. This paper deals with certain
issues such as definition and concepts being debated, inconsistency to link
between local history, identity socio-cultural and economic rights of the adat
community. In this stage, the first party responsible for empowering the adat
community is the government, however there is an immense disparity between ideal
plan to empower them, and systemic deteriorating of the peoples’ life condition
and all of their right. Implying some definitions and categories, this paper
underlines as well as the actual life condition of adat community currently,
that is not merely impacted on external factors but also from internal factors.
This paper ends with six conclusions to emphazise ways for coping with current
crisis of the adat community in Indonesia.
Penulis: John Haba
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd100022
