I Ketut Oka Setiawan
Land Dispute Settlement According to Local Wisdom in The Tenganan Pegringsingan
Traditional Village, Bali 1.056
village’s awig-awig and to maintain the authority, they should be picked up and should be
taken to their destination. All disputes that arose in the customary village area, both private
and public (including customary land disputes), were resolved in the manner and place of
the Bale Agung.
a. Bad Credit Case at BPR Manggis:
According to the provisions of Article 7, each customary villager was prohibited
from mortgaging land (privately owned) to people outside the village, but this
prohibition was violated by Samudra, a citizen of Krama Desa, to Bank Perkreditan
Rakyat (BPR) Manggis in 1998. Because the loan was not repaid, then the bank
sold the Samudra land. In that case, Kliang Adat had made an appeal so that the
villagers were willing to buy the land so that it was not bought by someone else,
but none of the residents had money as big as Samudra's debt. Even according to
the Kliang, the village tried to buy it using the village treasury, it was also not
sufficient, in the end the land was bought by someone outside the village, namely
from Nyuh Tebel village. Based on the awig-awig provisions, Samudra was
demoted from the status of Krama Desa to Krama Gumi and exiled to the Banjar
Pande and no longer entitled to tika.
b. Bad Credit Cases at BPD Amlapura:
A villager named SDM (45 years old), with a high school education, pawned his
private land of 56 acres for Rp 85,000,000,- for the creation of an art shop, initially
offered to residents, but because no one was willing, then mortgaged it to the
Amlapura Regional Development Bank (capital of Karangasem district). After
maturity and the debt had become Rp 95,000,000, - the bank reported to the
village’s Kliang. Kliang Desa tried as in the previous case, and the debtor never
came to the meeting (sangkepan) at Bale Agung, so the Kliang Adat asked for the
execution to be postponed, accompanied by a request to borrow money from BPD
to redeem the debtor's land, also to no avail, finally the bank auctioned the SDM's
land at a price of Rp. 100,000,000, - and bought by someone outside the village,
namely from Ngis village. Based on the awig-awig of the SDM’s village, finally
the status was lowered to Krama Gumi and was expelled and did not receive any
more tika distribution.
c. Cases of Changes in Cropping Patterns:
Based on the provisions of Article 8 of awig-awig of the village, the village people
were prohibited from making sugar and planting shallots, if there was a violation,
the village should be fined with 400 Kepeng, if not paid, the land where the plants
were would be confiscated. In a village meeting (Sangkepan) objective information
was obtained that before Mount Agung erupted (in 1963) the land could be planted
with rice, but after that, the land could no longer be planted with rice, except for
planting red grass. Based on that information, the awig-awig sanction was not
applied.
d. Sacred Building Utilization Case:
Based on the village’s awig-awig, any sacred buildings, both village-owned and
private, should not be used other than for traditional and ritual purposes. In its
development, especially since the traditional village of Tenganan Pegringsingan
was appointed as a tourist attraction in one of the ancient villages in Bali, the
benefits of the sacred building for the villagers had increased as a place to sell
souvenirs. Not only sacred buildings belonging to the village, but also sacred
buildings belonging to private residents, because it turned out that privately owned
sacred buildings were affixed with merchandise for domestic and foreign tourists,
so it was crowded with people, including people who had their periods, known as