Pemberdayaan Kesadaran Hukum Masyarakat Adat Sedulur Sikep sebagai Upaya Preventif Perlindungan Hak Ulayat atas Tanah di Dusun Kaliyoso Kabupaten Kudus

Abstract

This community service activity aims to increase the legal awareness of the Sedulur Sikep indigenous people in Kaliyoso Hamlet, Kudus Regency, as an effort to prevent the protection of customary rights to customary lands based on customary law and positive law. Despite having a high level of compliance with local customary norms, these communities still face limited understanding of national land regulations and administrative mechanisms for customary land registration, potentially creating vulnerabilities to their communal rights in the future. The implementation method used is Participatory Action Research (PAR) combined with the concept of Community-Based Legal Empowerment. This activity actively involves traditional leaders, village officials, and community members through dialogical legal counseling and participatory discussions. The results of the service show that there is an increase in public legal awareness as measured through aspects of legal knowledge, understanding, attitudes, and behavior. The community is now beginning to understand the importance of administrative aspects such as historical documentation of land tenure and coordination with land agencies. Furthermore, this activity succeeded in formulating a model for empowering legal awareness consisting of five main components: increasing legal literacy, strengthening the role of indigenous leaders, documenting the history of land tenure, synergy with village governments and land agencies, and regenerating customary values to the younger generation. The model has proven to be effective as a preventive strategy to create harmonization between living customary law values and the national legal system in order to ensure legal certainty and the sustainability of the customary rights of the Sedulur Sikep indigenous people.