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During his life, he was Adat's greatest champion and is still revered by many of the older generations in Indonesia. “The Man for Adat Law”, as he was called, died in Leiden in 1933. The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society, part of the Leiden Law School, is named after Cornelis van Vollenhoven.
Law of Indonesia is based on a civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and Dutch law.Before European presence and colonization began in the sixteenth century, indigenous kingdoms ruled the archipelago independently with their own custom laws, known as adat (unwritten, traditional rules still observed in the Indonesian society). [1]
Adat muhakamah (عادت محكمة) – the term refers to traditional laws, commandments, and orders compiled into legal codes by rulers to maintain social order and harmony. The adat laws, often blended together with Islamic laws, were the main written legal reference for Malay societies since the classical era and commonly referred to as kanun.
During this time Holleman also contributed a chapter on Java in Van Vollenhoven's series Het Adatrecht van Nederlandsch-Indië. In 1918, Holleman was transferred to Ambon where he acted in a similar capacity. He went on leave to Europe in 1922 during which time he published a book on the adat law of Ambon and nearby islands.
Van Vollenhoven is a Dutch and Afrikaans surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cornelis van Vollenhoven (1874–1933), Dutch academic and legal scholar; Joost van Vollenhoven (1877–1918), Dutch-born French soldier and colonial administrator; Pieter van Vollenhoven (born 1939), Dutch royalty
Vollenhoven was born in Amsterdam, son of Dirk Hendrik Vollenhoven and Catharina Pruijs.His father was a custom house officer of telegraphy in Amsterdam. In 1911, Vollenhoven registered in two faculties at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and obtained his PhD in philosophy (cum laude) in 1918.
The Jabatan Adat Istiadat Negara (abbrev: JAIN) is a government department under the Prime Minister's Office that functions to guarantee the constant maintenance of Royal Customs. [1] It has been translated literally as the Office of State Customs , [ 2 ] the Department of the State Customs [ 3 ] or the State Department of Customs and ...
Johan Holleman was born in Tulungagung in Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1915.His parents were Frederik David Holleman (1887–1958), a Dutch and South African ethnologist and legal scholar working in the Dutch colonial service and Adriana van Geijtenbeek (1889-1986). [2]