ABSTRACT
Research on Undang-Undang Ternate manuscripts has not yet been conducted despite their bad condition. If this condition is not addressed soon, Indonesia will lose some of its national cultural inheritance involving ideas about law and power. This fact constitutes the background for the research on Undang-Undang Ternate manuscripts. In addition, studies on the manuscripts can provide information on the structure and the application of power relation in a specific area and period, and therefore they are important. The research uses a philological method for creating an inventory of the manuscripts, describing them, and selecting the manuscripts to be edited and reviewed, in order to collect, understand, interpret, and analyze the data. The results will contribute to the studies of legal manuscripts in Eastern Indonesia and of Ternate history.
