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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]
The professors on the opening of Rechtshoogeschool te Batavia in 1924. The Faculty of Law University of Indonesia was founded in Batavia in 1909 as the Rechtsschool (Law School), a college of law established as a realization of a request from the Regent of Serang, Achmad Djajadiningrat, for the purposes of training legal staff for the district court. [2]
The study of Indonesian etymology and loan words reflects its historical and social context. Examples include the early Sanskrit borrowings, probably during the Srivijaya period, the borrowings from Arabic and Persian, especially during the time of the establishment of Islam, and words borrowed from Dutch during the colonial period.