Gavin Kerr.
This article is a result of field research about the culture of inheritance of migrating Besemah people in Jakarta. The research questions raised in this article are do migrating Besemah people adopt their customary law of inheritance or do they adapt to the regime prevailed in the Jakarta? This article found that Besemah people living in Jakarta have been adapting to the urban way of inheritan…
This article describes marital property issues. How to devides marital property that can give justice to the parties. Becaused of that, this article provides a concept that can give justice to the parties ie marital property’s dstribution based on contributions in marriage. This concept is regarded more fair than the concept that provided by KHI. This study also gives religious court’s judg…
This article investigates an involvement of the goverment of the Municipaltiy of Padang in West Sumatra in managing zakat institution, namely BAZDA [Badan Amil Zakat Daerah]. It argues that the intentions of the mayor in managing the zakat institution aimed to provide an alternative financial source in order to support his position at the mayor. Zakat payers [Muzakki], collector [amil], kinds o…
This article discusses an intellectual property rights system, especially for the benefit of the distance education researchers. In doing research, researchers have to extort their mind, creativity and intellectual ability to yield something. As the only distance education institution in Indonesia, various development products for the interest of the learning process have been developed by Univ…