inheritance of community property in melayu siak community

the existence of legal events in the form of death results inheritance regulated by certain inheritance 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 law and customary law are their living laws, there are differences in those two laws regarding the inheritance which then raises the question of which law will apply. this study utilizes a qualitative descriptive method with an empirical juridical legal research approach. research data are collected through field studies by conducting interviews with the respondents to obtain primary data and literature studies to obtain secondary data. the focus of this research is to find out and analyze inheritance over the community property in melayu siak community. the results of the study show that 1) there is a relationship between the kinship system and the existence of the community property. 2) the inheritance in melayu siak community is based on the islamic inheritance law and its implementation is carried out based on the results of the deliberation.