Dutch Orientalism fabricated a legal duality still unresolved in Indonesia

Evidence

Snouck’s “discovery” of adat, and van Vollenhoven’s elevation of the study of this discovery into a “science,” in effect opened a Pandora’s box within the political and legal life of Indonesia that has not been closed to this day. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 251

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how an academic ‘discovery’ of a supposed legal duality became a living political wound — the colonial epistemology that manufactured the very distinction it claimed to find.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Republic’s Impossible Embrace: How Universalism Turned Algeria from the Future of France into Its Undoing”