Inheritance of Community Property in Melayu Siak Community

The existence of legal events in the form of death results inheritance regulated by certaininheritance laws. in indonesia, there is still inheritance legal pluralism, including civil inheritance law,islamic inheritance law and customary inheritance law. in melayu siak community, where islamic lawand customary law are their living laws, there are differences in those two laws regarding the inheritancewhich then raises the question of which law will apply. this study utilizes a qualitative descriptivemethod with an empirical juridical legal research approach. research data are collected through fieldstudies by conducting interviews with the respondents to obtain primary data and literature studies toobtain secondary data. the focus of this research is to find out and analyze inheritance over thecommunity property in melayu siak community. the results of the study show that 1) there is arelationship between the kinship system and the existence of the community property. 2) the inheritancein melayu siak community is based on the islamic inheritance law and its implementation is carried outbased on the results of the deliberation.