Recognition and Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Tongkonan Land in Tana Toraja Regency, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the position of Tong konan land as part of the Tana Toraja Indigenous Peoples and analyze the Tongkonan land management system. The research method used is empirical juridical sourced from primary data and secondary data by being analyzed qualitatively descriptively. The results of this study show that the status of Tongkonan land ownership in Toraja is not comprehensive due to the need for an approach based on local wisdom values so that Toraja customary law communities can carry out all economic, social, and cultural activities on Tongkonan land and there is also a new legal relationship between customary law communities and Tongkonan land and The loss of legal relations between the two sides caused by the loss of communal value of the tongkonan land . The status of tongkonan land is bound by customary law so that it is subject to applicable customary law, among others, the land is prohibited from being transferred to other parties outside the Tongkonan community (Toraja indigenous people)