Raffles, the Naskah Kitab Hukum Manuscript and Social Engineering of the Inhabitants of Java in 1814

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Published: Apr 15, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21315/kajh2020.27.1.4
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Raffles, Naskah Kitab Hukum manuscript, Social engineering, Java, history

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Hazmirullah
Program Pascasarjana, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jalan Ir Soekarno KM 21 Jatinangor, Sumedang, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
Titin Nurhayati Ma’mun
Program Pascasarjana, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jalan Ir Soekarno KM 21 Jatinangor, Sumedang, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
Reiza D Dienaputra
Program Pascasarjana, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jalan Ir Soekarno KM 21 Jatinangor, Sumedang, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

Abstract

The Naskah Kitab Hukum manuscript issued by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1814 is one of the important manuscripts in the history of a judicial system in Indonesia. The manuscript was published because Raffles, upon his early days of duty, noticed that the existing judicial system in Java was complicated and confusing, constituted in the formalities of the Roman law. This article presents a study of how the Naskah Kitab Hukum became a means of social engineering of the inhabitants of Java through at least three ways: (1) legislation process before the issuing of regulation, (2) accommodating the social cohesion of Java inhabitants into the regulation and (3) domestication of English legal terms which were not familiar to the Java inhabitants.

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Raffles, the Naskah Kitab Hukum Manuscript and Social Engineering of the Inhabitants of Java in 1814. (2020). KEMANUSIAAN The Asian Journal of Humanities, 27(1), 69–88. https://doi.org/10.21315/kajh2020.27.1.4
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