MEMAHAMI KEDUDUKAN DAN KAPASITAS HUKUM ADAT DALAM POLITIK PEMBANGUNAN HUKUM NASIONAL

Indonesia has been well known as a multicultural country inSoutheast Asiaregion in term of its ethnic, religion, racial and social stratification. It is, therefore, Unity in Diversity is reflected as an official motto of the State in order to describe the empirical social and cultural diversity ofIndonesia. The diversity refers to a cultural configuration which reflect the Nation identity ofIndonesia, forming elements of cultural capital as well as cultural power that generate the life of Nation State of Indonesia. In the effort of National Law development then questioned whether the existence of adat law as living law and product of culture can be accounted as instrument for enriching substance of National Law? The article attempts to offer answer of the above fundamental question by employing legal anthropology approach with the purpose of obtaining a better understanding holistically regarding the development of National law in multicultural country toward a more just and equitable of State law ofIndonesiain particular.