This research is a Socio-Legal Analysis of the Role of Customary Institutions in Resolving Land Conflicts in Customary Forests in the Merauke Regency Region, while the problems to be studied are about how the position of customary forests belonging to the Marind customary community in the Merauke Regency area is in the perspective of legislation and how the process of transitioning customary forest land by the Marind indigenous people in the Merauke Regency area. The purpose of this study was to find out how the position of the customary forest belonging to the Marind customary community in the Merauke Regency area is in the perspective of legislation and to find out the process of resolving forest land conflicts by the Marind customary community in the Merauke Regency area. The research method used in this research is Juridical Sociolegal. This research is a study that looks at law through a combination of normative analysis (legal norms, juridical) and non-legal science approaches. Based on the Papua Province Perdasus Number 23 of 2008 concerning the Ulayat Rights of Indigenous Law Communities and Individual Rights of Indigenous Peoples to the Land of the Indigenous Peoples, Marind Imbuti, the owner of customary land in the Veterans area of Merauke Regency, does not own customary forest, but owns land or customary forest. The process of transitioning the Ulayat Forest belonging to the Marind Imbuti customary community inhabiting the Merauke Regency area must go through the Customary Process and Administrative Process, both of which are quite strict and selective.

The Merauke regency area has a village level government, one of which is Sota village which is one of the villages located on the border of the State of Indonesia and Papua New Gunea. One of the indigenous people who inhabit the Sota village area is the Marind Kanum Tribe. Administratively for community empowerment to increase income is one of the roles of the village government, especially for the indigenous people, the increase in income still needs to be increased Because the average income of the local community is still relatively low, therefore support from various parties including local government through the relevant agencies. The purpose of this study was to find out how the role and government of the Sota village in increasing the income of the indigenous people of Marind Kanum and to determine the extent to which the laws and regulations governed that. The results of this study indicate that the participation of the village government by assigning tasks to village officials is to provide training and aquipment assistance for business to local communities and transmigration which in this case is in accordance with Law number 6 of 2014 concerning Village Government. Keywords: Participant; Sota VillageGovernment; Incrasing Income; Marind Kanum.

The purpose of this research is to find out how far the laws and regulations govern the authority of indigenous peoples in resolving customary disputes. The research method used in this study is Sociolegal. This research is a study that looks at law through a combination of normative analysis (legal norms, juridical) and non-legal science approaches. Socio-legal nature is prescriptive Giving solutions to legal problems by combining normative analysis and non-legal approaches / social aspects. The authority between the Marind Imbuti Indigenous Peoples Institution and the Marind Indigenous Peoples Institution Community of Kanum Tomer is the Marind Imbuti Indigenous Peoples Institution having the authority to carry out customary justice for each tribe / community in the disputed indigenous community while the customary community does not have the authority to conduct customary hearings for each member of the tribe disputes but all customary justice mechanisms carried out by the Marind Imbuti Community Institution and the Marind Kanum Indigenous Community as regulated in Article 10 of Perdasus Number 20 of 2008 cannot yet be legally accounted for because they are not in accordance with the instructions of article 10 paragraph (2) of Perdasus Number 20 Year 2008. Keywords: Indigenous Peoples Institutions, Indigenous Disputes