Doctoral Dissertation Research: Land and Sea Tenure, Customary Law and Natural Resource Management in the Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku, Indonesia

本研究考察了基岛不断变化的共同财产制度，基岛是印度尼西亚马鲁古南海班达海和阿拉弗拉海之间的一个偏远群岛。这项研究的重点是争夺渔场和农业及森林土地控制权的冲突。习惯的“adat法”、传统的岛屿村庄领导结构和地方资源管理系统在保护个人和社区权利方面的作用构成了研究的中心焦点。目前正在评估这些系统如何保护对珊瑚礁、岛屿、海岸线、海湾、河口和森林的权利，以及机构和社区如何适应自然和社会政治环境的加速变化。国家科学基金会支持的部分工作是档案和政策研究，以追踪当前政策和冲突的历史发展。这部分工作正在雅加达和荷兰进行。

This research examines changing common property regimens in the Kei island, a remote archipelago separating the Banda and Arafura Seas in South Seas Maluku, Indonesia. The study focuses on conflict over access to an control of fishing grounds and agricultural and forest lands. The roles of customary `adat law,` traditional island village leadership structures, and local resource management systems in protecting individual and communal rights, comprise the central focus of the research. How these systems protect rights to reefs, island, shorelines, bays estuaries and forests and how the institutions and communities are adapting to accelerating changes in the natural and sociopolitical environment are being assessed. The portion of the work supported by NSF is archival and policy research to trace the historical developments of present policies and conflicts. This portion of the work is being conduced in Jakarta and in the Netherlands.