An institutional analysis of sasi laut in Maluku, Indonesia

Section 3: Identification marks

1. No one - either the community member or foreigners - are allowed to wear clothes or attributes that
belong to the Kewang.

2. No one is allowed to use the sound instrument usually used by the Kewang (shell).

Section 4: Problems/Difficulties

1. No community member is to take justice into his own hands when he is still within the village
territory.

2. No one is allowed to do things that may bring uneasiness to others.

3. When a problem arises that needs resolving by the Kewang, the one involved should pay the

costs for:

a. Getting people to come or be present or keeping them away,

b. Keeping the cloves safe at harvest time,

c. The plantation commission,

d. Counting the plants/trees and deciding on the borders.

Section 5: Others

1. When sasi is closed, no one is allowed to wear a hat, white towel, white shirt and use an umbrella.

2. When sasi is closed during the months February to August, no one is allowed to turn on the gasoline
light, “lobe” or torch within the forest at night, unless permitted by the Pakter and Kewang Besar.

3. Sounds from chain saws, tape recorders, drums, etc. are also not allowed.

Section 6: Additions

1. These sasi regulations are adapted to Kewang regulations.

2. Anyone who breaks these regulations will have to pay a certain fee as stated hereafter.

3. If sometime in the future there seems to be any error or mistake in these regulations, it will be corrected.

4. The sasi regulations are valid from the day they are decreed.

Decreed in: N o l l o t h

On: January 1, 1990

Acknowledged/ Legalized:                1. Pakter

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