Tanah Ulayat-Based Environment in Kapau Nagari, Tilatang Kamang Sub-District, Agam Regency – Indonesia

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Ikhwan, Eri Barlian1, Nurhasan Syah, Eka Vidya Putra, Khairul Fahmi

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This research was conducted to understand tanah ulayat-based. Furthermore, this study will analyze the values ​​that exist in the community about tanah ulayat in  Kapau Nagari – Agam Regency, analyze the factors that affect the change of ownership, analyze the existence of tanah ulayat about environmental sustainability. This research was conducted using qualitative research methods with descriptive types. To get information is done using field observation, document collection and in-depth interviews. The results showed socio-economic and cultural changes have shifted community view of the world, including their orientation and views on Minangkabau social system, modernization touches with capitalist economic styles and changed communal socio-economic orientations towards individuals. In line with the matriline shifted parental form, this shift is however related to the problem of inheritance and ownership of property, usually, the property bequeathed by the mother (uncle) to the niece (sister's daughter) or in the maternal line, with the urgency of economic needs and the changing view of the property, now a father seeks to bequeath property to the child, then the appearance of land disputes becomes biased when viewed from these orientation changes.

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