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Industrialization has been so popularly established in the modern world, and it is justified by a perception that it can foster development in a country. So many countries are then encouraged to establish policies expected to promote industrialization, including in the realm of legal policy which is usually imposed through the politics of legal centralism. However, such perception may contain serious risk. In a pluralistic country like Indonesia where there are still so many social groups called as adat people (masyarakat adat) who are still living in traditional community based on traditional-customary law called as adat law (hukum adat), such centralistic policies imposed regarding to the development interest often neglect the existence of these people and this situation often leads into tensions and conflicts between the government and corporations in one hand and the adat people in another hand. This paper will elaborate a phenomenon of legal plurality as the cause of land conflict involving community of adat people in Indonesia, by taking a case study of land conflict between a community of adat people called as “Sedulur Sikep” and a cement company supported by the government regarding to a plan of industrial establishment in Central Java.”
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