PERKAWINAN MASYARAKAT SAMIN DALAM PANDANGAN HUKUM NEGARA

Marriage is a demographic matter which needs involvement of state, it deals with registration of marriage contract in order to get legitimation of law.<br /> Registration is an evidence of residence’s obedient toward state law (law No.23/2006 about demographic administration, law no.12/200<br />about citizenship). However, in Samin’s community,marriage does not involved a state but based on the ancestors’ teaching and Samin’s principle of life.<br />This study based on a grounded, ethnographic and phenomenological<br />research, this can be categorized as a social-cultural research.<br />Object of this study is phenomena of social and cultural of Samin’s community in Kudus, specifically on marriage based on adat. This study aims to know a practice of Samin’s marriage in Kudus, steps of marriage including nyumuk, ngendek,<br />nyuwito, penyeksen, and tingkep. Such steps do not involve state’s roles even in<br />marriage contract