Review of the Widow’s Position in the Customary Inheritance System in the Batak Toba Community

Gaol, Leli Veronica Lumban and Apriani, Desi and Kurniasih, Esy and Febrianti, Lidia and Peter, Ketut and Susanti, Heni (2021) Review of the Widow’s Position in the Customary Inheritance System in the Batak Toba Community. In: Proceeding International Conference on Malay Identiti (ICMI).

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Abstract

Researchers conducted research on the Review of the Position of Widows in the Traditional Inheritance System in the Batak Toba Society Study in Sitapongan Village, Sijama Polang District, Humbang Hasundutan Regency, North Sumatra Province. Most of the Batak people who live in Sitapongan Village still adhere to a patrilineal kinship system which does not allow widows as heirs and does not recognize the division of inheritance/inheritance. The purpose of this study was to determine the position of widows in the customary inheritance system, in the Toba Batak community, especially in Sitapongan Village, Sijama Polang District, Humbang Hasundutan Regency, North Sumatra Province. The type of research used in this research is observational research by means of a survey, meaning that a research conducted by the author directly goes down to the field to obtain information and data related to the author's research. The results of the study concluded that the position of the widow in the customary inheritance system in the Batak Toba Community due to the death of her husband has 2 options, namely the widow can remain under power and in the circle of relatives of her late husband and not remarry and the widow can return to her relatives (parboru). Settlement of disputes that occurred against widows who were abandoned in Batak custom in Sitapongan village, ended in marhata settlements or family settlements, there was no effort by the widows who were sampled to carry out settlements through the courts.

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