TY - JOUR

T1 - Creating legal facts

T2 - Indigenous people versus state plantation companies in Medan, Indonesia

AU - Khairina, Wina

AU - Lund, Christian

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - This paper examines how a local community has tried to legalise its possession of land in the outskirts of the city of Medan, Indonesia. In the absence of accessible legal pathways and in the face of state and gang violence, the community has resorted to an imaginative mimicry of legal land access procedures. This paper argues that law-making does not exclusively originate from the state, but also from society, and as such the community has effectively created legal facts. Data were collected through interviews and long-term contact with the community.

AB - This paper examines how a local community has tried to legalise its possession of land in the outskirts of the city of Medan, Indonesia. In the absence of accessible legal pathways and in the face of state and gang violence, the community has resorted to an imaginative mimicry of legal land access procedures. This paper argues that law-making does not exclusively originate from the state, but also from society, and as such the community has effectively created legal facts. Data were collected through interviews and long-term contact with the community.

U2 - 10.22146/pcd.v8i1.417

DO - 10.22146/pcd.v8i1.417

M3 - Journal article

VL - 8

SP - 1

EP - 12

JO - PCD Journal of Power, Conflict and Democracy

JF - PCD Journal of Power, Conflict and Democracy

SN - 2085-0433

IS - 1

ER -