SOCIAL CONCEPTS OF TRADITIONAL JUSTICE AND METHODS OF SETTLEMENT OF TRADITIONAL LAW IN ACEH, INDONESIA

Abstract

Customary law is the same as other laws that live and develop in society. Customary law is a role model and implementation of attitudes or character (geist) from daily practice in the life order of people who are more ethnic or community groups in a country. The nature and shape are traditional and basically unwritten and sourced from their own customs or habits. The research was carried out in Aceh Province from 2020 to 2021. The research method used was the observation method. Observations were made to the people of Aceh, then analyzed qualitatively. The use of meunasah as a place of customary peace cannot be separated from the long history of meunasah itself, in general Meunasah, some call it meulasah, beunasah, beulasah, comes from the word madrasa in Arabic, which is an educational institution, the meunasah is used as a place to stay for the men who have reached puberty in the gampong, as well as the adult men who stop by in the gampong but do not have a wife in the gampong.