THE LOCAL LAW INSTRUMENT BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM IN MALUKU, “SASI LOMPA”: LAWS AND ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT

Abstract

Customary law is a law system known in the social life environment in Indonesia as well as in another countries. The source of customary law is unwritten law regulations which are grown, developed, and maintained by the legal awareness of the world people. Moreover, customary law is closely related to culture.The meaning of culture is a way of life that is found in a group of people in a community who developed, and passed down from one generation to another generation. Culture also regulates human behavior in interacting with other humans so that each person understands what the needs to be conducted.The implementation of Sasi in Haruku village located in an island of Maluku province in the eastern part of Indonesia was studied.  Here Sasi is meant according to the original language in Haruku village as “Sasi Aman Haru – Ukui”. The implementation of this Sasi had been carried out since the 1600s associated with the enormous potential of nature in Haruku Village especially to protect, preserve and maintain all potential natural resources contained in the village.The challenges faced by the Haruku villagers are economic problems so that the need for a written instrument which can actually provide absolute certainty of authority when opening and closing Sasi Lompa in the Haruku village. Such instrument will solve the difficulties of the Haruku villagers to preserve the local wisdom that they usually known as Sasi Lompa.