Marriage tradition of indigenious community of baduy and the COVID-19 prevention

Baduy is a group of people who are still primitive, because they still survive with the principles of a long life full of local wisdom, including in conducting marriage rituals However, the problem with marital procedures is contrary to positive law in Indonesia In addition, the marriage ceremony conducted by the Baduy indigenous people involves many people which is also contrary to government policies regarding social distancing in handling the Covid-19 outbreak The purpose of this study is (1) to analyze the marital status carried out by the Baduy community in positive law in Indonesia, (2) to analyze the efforts of the Baduy community to prevent the spread of covid-19 in the midst of procuring a marriage ritual that involves many people The method in this paper uses normative juridical research and uses three sources of legal material, namely primary, secondary and tertiary Data analysis was performed descriptively qualitative The results showed that (1) the legality of the marriage of the Baduy community certainly had no legality and this marriage was not recognized by the state, (2) the marriage ceremony of the Baduy community could still be carried out as usual, bearing in mind that this community was very closed with the outside world long before the Covid-19 pandemic, but this clearly cannot be applied in outside Baduy communities which incidentally still open access for outsiders to visit © 2020, Institute of Medico-Legal Publications All rights reserved