- Authors: Sukri Tamma
- From: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Bonn University, Germany
Abstract:
This paper aims to analyze the phenomena of democracy in term of local election in the Toraja area related to the existences of the Toraja ethnic group as the majority and their indigeneity. It tends not simply as the way to proof the “people rule” only as usually known by people tin related to the democracy that legalized by the state regulation. That democracy event is an opportunity for their customary guidance existences that make this situation as the “legal pluralism” arena. That situation should be viewed as a “critical discourse” between the general idea of democracy that formalized by the state and the local values. Hence, as two important things, it seems that presences of both laws will influencing the Torajas form of democracy that showing dynamics of the state formal regulation and the Customary existence.
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