The Inheritance of Minang Families in Semarang City: A Study of Compliance with Legal Culture

Many members of tribal communities in several areas have migrated outside their place of origin, settled in new areas for many years, and adapted to the values, norms, attitudes and mindsets of the people in the new environment. This study aims to determine the implementation of the inheritance of indigenous people who migrated and to find out how far the legal culture and customary values are maintained or shifted. This research is an empirical juridical research with a qualitative approach. This umbrella research involves students writing a bachelor thesis with the theme of inheritance. The type of data used is primary and secondary data. Primary data was obtained through interviews with the Minang families. The results of the research show that inheritance is carried out regardless of gender and is based on the needs of each family using the principles of adat law namely kinship, justice and parimirma (compassion), consensus and deliberation; The inheritance in the Minangkabau families studied are not appropriate with faraidh and the Compilation of Islamic Law because the money (inheritance) are distributed equally among all heirs; the way of such equal distribution is indeed according to Indonesian Civil Law. The legal culture is changing because of the behavior of the member of community. The lack of compliance to adat law was influenced by educational background, environment, culture, social position, the needs or interests of the member of families. Keywords: Inheritance, Minang families, legal cultur