Art­icle on cross-border suc­ces­sion and estate di­vi­sion

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

The art­icle by Dewa Sukma Kelana, Agus Gandara, Siah Khosyi’ah and Ahmad Fa­thonih, pub­lished in Jurnal Pus­taka Cendekia Hukum dan Ilmu Sosial, ad­dresses the dis­tri­bu­tion of assets in cross-border suc­ces­sion dis­putes under Is­lam­ic law and In­done­sian pos­it­ive law. Using a norm­at­ive legal method with com­par­at­ive and con­cep­tu­al ap­proaches, it iden­ti­fies con­flicts of laws arising from con­nect­ing factors such as lex rei sitae, lex pat­ri­ae and lex dom­i­cilii, con­trasts fixed shares in Is­lam­ic in­her­it­ance law with test­a­ment­ary free­dom in West­ern civil law sys­tems, and points to the ab­sence of a com­pre­hens­ive private-international-law co­di­fic­a­tion in In­done­sia along­side the ter­rit­ori­al limits of re­li­gious courts. It pro­poses a dual-track re­sponse: stra­tegic use of private-international-law prin­ciples through in­ter­na­tion­al wills, to­geth­er with Is­lam­ic mech­an­isms such as hibah, wasiat waji­bah and takharuj.