Following the dramatic 1998 overthrow of Suhartoos New Order, Indonesiaas 1999 Regional Autonomy Laws broke over 100 years of centralized government through far reaching administrative and political decentralization as well as new fiscal arrangements between the central government and the regions. This has had various consequences for land and other natural resources arrangements, among others through the ensuing revival of adapt law-discourse and the shift in orientation of district leaders from the centre to their local constituency. At the same time, however, central state law still applies and reduces their cope of lawful action. The dynamic interactions between central sate law, regional legislation, and the highly diverse regulating mechanisms, practical solutions and traditions of the Indonesian population from the core of this seminarrs subject.
Based on research data collected in various regions in Indonesia, this seminar seeks to analyze and understand the natural and local impact the new legal structure of regional autonomy on land and natural resources law at the district, municipal and village level. It aims to study how the state responds to local legal initiatives, how guardian institutionn control the acts of the newly empowered legislatures and executives, how the new system influences tenure security of common people and what use is being made of global discourses on rights and international legal orders. With that, the seminar seeks to draw conclusions on the process of rule of law formation at Indonesiaas lower levels of government ten years after onset of reform.
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