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Customary Law
Indonesia
- English…
(3) The cultural identities and rights of traditional communities shall be respected in accordance with the development of times and civilisations.
… (Art. 28I) - Indonesian…
(3) Identitas budaya dan hak masyarakat tradisional dihormati selaras denganperkembangan zaman dan peradaban.
… (Pasal 28I)
Customary Law
Thailand
- EnglishThe State shall:
1. conserve, revive and promote local wisdom, arts, culture, traditions and good customs at both local and national levels, and provide a public area for the relevant activities including promoting and supporting the people, community and a local administrative organisation to exercise the rights and to participate in the undertaking;
... (Sec. 57) - Thaiรัฐต้อง
(๑) อนุรักษ์ ฟื้นฟู และส่งเสริมภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่น ศิลปะ วัฒนธรรม ขนบธรรมเนียม และจารีตประเพณีอันดีงามของท้องถิ่นและของชาติ และจัดให้มีพื้นที่สาธารณะสําหรับกิจกรรมที่เกี่ยวข้อง รวมทั้งส่งเสริมและสนับสนุนให้ประชาชน ชุมชน และองค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นได้ใช้สิทธิและมีส่วนร่วมในการดําเนินการด้วย
... (มาตรา ๕๗)
Customary Law
Kyrgyzstan
- English1. In the Kyrgyz Republic, folk customs and traditions which do not infringe upon human rights and freedoms shall be supported by the State.
… (Art. 37) - Russian1. В Кыргызской Республике народные обычаи и традиции, не ущемляющие права и свободы человека, поддерживаются государством.
… (Статья 37) - Kyrgyz1. Кыргыз Республикасында адамдын укугу менен эркиндигин кемсинтпеген элдик үрп-адаттар, каада-салттар мамлекет тарабынан колдоого алынат.
… (37-берене)
Customary Law
Viet Nam
- English…
3. … Every ethnic group has the right to use its own spoken and written language to preserve its own identity and to promote its fine customs, practices, traditions and culture.
… (Art. 5) - Vietnamese…
3. … Các dân tộc có quyền dùng tiếng nói, chữ viết, giữ gìn bản sắc dân tộc, phát huy phong tục, tập quán, truyền thống và văn hoá tốt đẹp của mình.
… (Điều 5)
Customary Law
Myanmar
- EnglishEvery citizen shall, in accord with the law, have the right to freely develop literature, culture, arts, customs and traditions they cherish. In the process, they shall avoid any act detrimental to national solidarity. Moreover, any particular action which might adversely affect the interests of one or several other national races shall be taken only after coordinating with and obtaining the settlement of those affected. (Sec. 365)
- Burmeseနိုင်ငံသားတိုင်းသည် ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ မိမိတို့အမြတ်တနိုးထားရှိသော စာပေ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှု၊ အနုပညာနှင့် ဓလေ့ထုံးတမ်းတို့ကို လွတ်လပ်စွာ ပြုစုပျိူးထောင်ဆောင်ရွက်ပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည်။ ယင်းသို့ဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် တိုင်းရင်းသားစည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးကို ထိပါးမှုမရှိစေရန် ရှောင်ကြဉ်ရမည်။ ထို့ပြင်မိမိတို့၏ ဆောင်ရွက်မှုသည် အခြားတိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုး တစ်မျိုးကိုဖြစ်စေ၊ လူမျိုးများကိုဖြစ်စေ ထိခိုက်နစ်နာစေနိုင်လျှင် သက်ဆိုင်သူများအချင်းချင်းညှိနှိုင်း၍ ပြေလည်မှုရရှိပြီးမှသာ ဆောင်ရွက်ခွင့် ရှိသည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၆၅)
Customary Law
Malaysia
- English…
(3) The Attorney General shall have power, exercisable at his discretion, to institute, conduct or discontinue any proceedings for an offence, other than proceedings before a Syariah court, a native court or a court-martial.
… (Art. 145) - Malay…
(3) Peguam Negara hendaklah mempunyai kuasa yang boleh dijalankan menurut budi bicaranya, untuk memulakan, menjalankan atau memberhentikan apa-apa prosiding bagi sesuatu kesalahan, selain prosiding di hadapan mahkamah Syariah, mahkamah anak negeri atau mahkamah tentera.
… (Perkara 145)
Customary Law
Philippines
- EnglishThe State shall recognize, respect, and protect the rights of indigenous cultural communities to preserve and develop their cultures, traditions, and institutions. It shall consider these rights in the formulation of national plans and policies. (Art. XIV, Sec. 17)
- FilipinoDapat kilalanin, igalang, at pangalagaan ng Estado ang mga karapatan ng mga katutubong pamayanang kultural sa pagpapanatili at pagpapayaman ng kanilang kultura, mga tradisyon, at mga institusyon. Dapat isaalang-alang nito ang mga karapatang ito sa pagbabalangkas ng mga pambansang plano at mga patakaran. (Art. XIV, Seksyon 17)
Customary Law
Indonesia
- English...
(2) The State recognises and respects traditional communities along with their traditional customary rights as long as these remain in existence and are in accordance with the societal development and the principles of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, and shall be regulated by law. (Art. 18B) - Indonesian...
(2) Negara mengakui dan menghormati kesatuan-kesatuan masyarakat hukum adat beserta hakhak tradisionalnya sepanjang masih hidup dan sesuai dengan perkembangan masyarakat dan prinsip Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia, yang diatur dalam undang-undang. (Pasal 18B)
Customary Law
Thailand
- EnglishA person and a community shall have the right to:
1. conserve, revive or promote wisdom, arts, culture, tradition and good customs at both local and national levels;
… (Sec. 43) - Thaiบุคคลและชุมชนย่อมมีสิทธิ
(๑) อนุรักษ์ ฟื้นฟู หรือส่งเสริมภูมิปัญญา ศิลปะ วัฒนธรรม ขนบธรรมเนียม และจารีตประเพณีอันดีงามทั้งของท้องถิ่นและของชาติ
… (มาตรา ๔๓)
Customary Law
India
- EnglishMarriage and divorce; infants and minors; adoption; wills, intestacy and succession; joint family and partition; all matters in respect of which parties in judicial proceedings were immediately before the commencement of this Constitution subject to their personal law. (Seventh Schedule: List III – Concurrent List, Art. 5)
- Hindiविवाह और तलाक; शिशु और नाबालिग; गोद लेना; वसीयत, निर्वासीयतता और उत्तराधिकार; संयुक्त परिवार और विभाजन; सभी मामले जिनके संबंध में न्यायिक कार्यवाहियाँ इस संविधान के लागू होने से पहले उनके व्यक्तिगत कानून के अधीन थीं। (सातवीं अनुसूची: सूची III – समवर्ती सूची, अनुच्छेद 5)