ABSTRACT
The present study has shown that the venture of a uniform legal system is not necessarily a simple endeavor. There is always a challenge to the dominion of official state law when non-state normative orderings operate in society. This is especially the case in Indonesia, where the transfer to a modern legal system from Dutch colonial administration not only aggravated the pluralism existing in the country but led to legal conflicts between the two camps of state and non-state normative orderings. It is essentially this encounter between the two camps that colors the current discourse on national law in Indonesia. The enduring problem is how and to what extent the state can manage pluralism in the country.
