Resolutions of the People's Consultative Assembly ( Ketetapan Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat or Tap MPR).The 1945 Constitution ( Undang-Undang Dasar Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 1945 or UUD 1945).The following official hierarchy of Indonesian legislations (from top to bottom) is enumerated in Article 7 of Act No 12 of 2011, a 'Law Concerning Making Rules': Indonesian legislation comes in different forms. The three components of adat, or customary law Dutch-Roman law and modern Indonesian law co-exist in the current law of Indonesia. Dutch legal decisions maintain some authority in Indonesia through application of the concordance principle. Following independence in 1945, Indonesia began to form its own modern Indonesian law, modifying existing precepts. The people of Aceh in Sumatra, for instance, observe their own sharia law, while ethnic groups like the Toraja in Sulawesi still follow their animistic customary law.ĭutch presence and subsequent colonization of Indonesia for over three centuries has left a legacy of Dutch colonial law, largely in the Indonesian civil code and criminal code. Foreign influences from India, China and the Middle East have not only affected culture, but also the customary adat laws. Before the Dutch presence and colonization began in the sixteenth century, indigenous kingdoms ruled the archipelago independently with their own custom laws, known as adat (unwritten, traditional rules still observed in the Indonesian society). Law of Indonesia is based on a civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and the Roman Dutch law.

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