This legal writing/minithesis entitled The Legal Protection on Community
Land towards Replanting in Ulu Wae Village, Poco Ranaka Subdistrict, Manggarai
Regency, NTT, by legal problem is the establishment of policy of Regional
Government of Manggarai Regency to disciplinize and forest supervision which is
proceeded by replanting activity, without the providence of legal protection as well as
without accommodate the necessity of society appropriately to the custom law and
existing traditional wisdom. The replanting activity was conducted by pruning and
decimation of peasants’ plants which mostly planted by productive copy plants. The
purpose of this legal writing/minithesis was to study and analyze how the legal
protection on the community land towards the replanting activity in Ulu Wae Village.
The type of research was empirical legal research, i.e. a research focused on the
behavior of legal society, wherein this research was directly conducted to the society
to gain primary data as main data in addition of secondary data. Based on the result of
research it can be concluded that Regional Government of Manggarai Regency did
not guarantee and neither give legal protection as appropriately, as well as disregard
the existence of custom legal society and custom right which has been managed
hereditarily since former time.