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September 10, 2025Space and Culture

The Implementation of Low-Inheritance Customary Law Within Minangkabau Migrant Families in Indonesia: A Law, Power, Space Approach

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RSRika SaraswatiBNBernadeta Resti NurhayatiEBEmanuel Boputra

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Overview

Interviews reveal that low-inheritance practices in Minangkabau families depend on power dynamics and social spaces.

Key Points

  • The implementation of low-inheritance customary law in Minangkabau migrant families is driven by social changes.
  • Understanding of inheritance law plays a crucial role in shaping family decisions about inheritance in migration contexts.
  • The shift from collective to low inheritance reflects changing power relations within the Minangkabau community.
  • Economic pressures and migration affect the traditional matrilineal structure of the Minangkabau ethnic group.

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Saraswati et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c182609b7b07f3a060f356https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312251367261
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