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Patterns of cohesion in Jakarta Malay: towards a more objective method of describing areal variation
Pluralistic legal system, pluralistic human rights?: teenage pregnancy, child marriage and legal institutions in Bali
This article examines how the existence of multiple legal orders can impact the defense of human rights, by discussing how state legal agents in Bali navigate state law through local concerns and adat (customary) law in cases dealing with teenage pregnancy outside of marriage. In such âemergenciesâ where the morality of the community is at stake, families, adat authorities and state agents collaborate to find a way to fit these emergency situations into the locally accepted normative system, resulting in what international institutions call âchild marriage.â In assessing the interaction between state law and customary law, this study offers a basis for discussing how legal pluralism should be addressed in the realization of human rights.Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in a pluralist worl