The Participation of Women in the Village Adat Justice: the Regulations and Its Implementations in North Aceh Regency

Abstract

Adat justice is one of the local wisdom possessed by the people of Aceh. The adat justice in Aceh was formed and carried out by adat law community to resolve issues between citizens. This research used normative juridical research method for reviewing the rules of regulations about the role of women and the empirical studies to understand the implementations, also to know the factors restricting the role of women in adat justice at gampong. It can be concluded the role of women in adat justice system at gampong in North Aceh Regency has not been done properly. In general leaders and community leaders are still reluctant to include women in gampong governance structure. Thus the lack of women representative directly related to the implementation of adat justice system at gampong.There are internal and external factor that inhibiting women participation.