Proceedings of the First Lekantara Annual Conference on Public Administration, Literature, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education, LePALISSHE 2021, August 3, 2021, Malang, Indonesia

Research Article

Gender Perspective in Customary and Islamic Inheritance Law

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.3-8-2021.2315073,
        author={Retnowulandari  Wahyuni},
        title={Gender Perspective in Customary and Islamic Inheritance Law},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the First Lekantara Annual Conference on Public Administration, Literature, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education, LePALISSHE 2021, August 3, 2021, Malang, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={LEPALISSHE},
        year={2022},
        month={1},
        keywords={customary inheritance law; islamic inheritance law},
        doi={10.4108/eai.3-8-2021.2315073}
    }
    
  • Retnowulandari Wahyuni
    Year: 2022
    Gender Perspective in Customary and Islamic Inheritance Law
    LEPALISSHE
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.3-8-2021.2315073
Retnowulandari Wahyuni1,*
  • 1: Universitas Trisakti, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Contact email: wahyuni.r@trisakti.ac.id

Abstract

The reality of the heterogeneous history of the Indonesian nation and society has made the inheritance law system in Indonesia plural, consisting of customary, Islamic, and Western laws. The problem is that in the provisions of customary law and Islamic law there are differences in inheritance for women, especially in societies with patrilineal customary kinship systems, even if they are Muslim families, generally, they still carry out the laws that live in their communities. So that in the event of a marriage breaking up due to death, there is no protection for the inheritance even though in CEDAW, gender equality has been declared. This normative research is descriptive and the analysis is done qualitatively. The results of this study indicate that Islamic inheritance law which is God's law cannot be changed, and patrilineal customary inheritance law is still difficult to change, although there are several court decisions related to customary and Islamic inheritance law that has shifted. So for the enforcement of legal equality, judges are needed who are responsive and have a gender perspective.