RECONSTRUCT THE PARADIGM SHIFT OF INHERITANCE RIGHTS FOR BALINESE HINDU WOMEN
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According to Balinese adat (customary) law, the sole inheritors are sons with purusa status, while daughters with predana status are not eligible to inherit. However, the idea of granting inheritance rights to Balinese Hindu women came to the fore, indicating a paradigm shift in the legal sense through the provision of a share of the property, or gunakaya, to their daughters as jiwadana, tadtadan, or bekel. The critical point is to reconstruct a paradigm shift by subordinating Balinese Hindu women’s inheritance rights to women’s emancipation, human rights, and gender equality.
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