Tody Utama is a PhD researcher at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, Leiden University, and a lecturer in Adat (Customary) Law at UGM, Indonesia. His current research explores the instrumentalization of customary law and institutions, focusing on the socio-political context and the strategies used by national and regional institutions to recognize, incorporate, and utilize adat. Some of his work is available [here].

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Socio-Legal Perspectives on Indonesian Legal Institutions: Research from the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Including the LAMPU Project on Lawmaking Politics