Contents

Abbreviations 7

The Relevance of Real Legal Certainty - An Introduction 9

B. Oomen and A. Bedner

Getting Real: Considering Legal Certainty from Below 23

1 Addressing Adverse Formalisation: The Land Question

in Outer Island Indonesia 25

J.

2 Can Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Create

Legal Certainty for Hunter-Gatherers? 43

G.A. Persoon and T. Minter

3 The Constitutional Dimensions of Decentralisation

and Local Self-Government in Asia 57

A. Harding

4 Indeterminacy, Uncertainty, and Insecurity 81

K. von Benda-Beckmann

Supporting the State: The Relevance of Institution Building 95

5 The Uncertain Future of Legal Reforms in China's New Era 97

J. Chen

6 The Role of Local Bureaucrats in the Law-making Process 109

R. Simarmata

7 Law's Catch-22: Understanding Legal Failure Spatially 127

B. van Rooij

8 Missions Impossible to Try Rwandan Genocide Suspects? 143

N. Huls

Other Actors: Widening the Scope 161

9 Traditional Leadership and Customary Law in

Capitalist Liberal Democracies in Africa 163

J.M. Ubink

10 Capacity Development of Civil Society in a Fragile

Context: Dutch Donor Interventions in the East of the

Democratic Republic of Congo 177

C. Jacobs

Inheritance Rights and Gender Justice in

Contemporary Indonesia 193

S. Irianto

12 The Role of Sharia in Lawmaking: The Case of Libya 213

S. Ibrahim

References 235

List of Contributors 257