The Perspective of Customary Law Community Cosmology on Woman, Land, and Food Security

Abstract

This study aims at understanding the customary law community to achieve food security based on the applicable customary law norms. There are several views to return and restore the role of indigenous peoples, especially women and nature. Based on this perspective, through local wisdom, the cosmology of customary law community is able to restore the role of women and nature in maintaining food security. This study is aimed to examine how does cosmology direct the perspective of indigenous peoples in relation to food security? If cosmology is able to direct the perspective of customary law community through local wisdom, and what is the role of local wisdom of customary law community to maintain food security, and what is the relations it has with the land? By applying the socio-legal method, this study found that the customary law communities have values, principles and norms to maintain food security. This food security is based on the people's perspective which highly respects nature. Through local wisdom, the communities carry out activities to maintain food security. Traditional ceremonies, customary sanctions, and rituals related to nature are the efforts of the ancestors of the customary law community to remind their heirs to maintain the preservation of nature. Therefore, it is advisable to conduct a study of food security in the perspective of local wisdom and customary law norms to be made into statutory regulations.

Keywords: cosmology, women, land, food security, local wisdom

DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/134-03

Publication date:July 31^st 2023