KEMANUSIAAN Vol. 27, No. 1, (2020), 69–88 © Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2020. This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Raffles, the Naskah Kitab Hukum Manuscript and Social Engineering of the Inhabitants of Java in 1814 *HAZMIRULLAH TITIN NURHAYATI MA’MUN REIZA D DIENAPUTRA Program Pascasarjana, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jalan Ir Soekarno KM 21 Jatinangor, Sumedang, Jawa Barat, Indonesia *Correponding author: azmeer125@gmail.com Published online: 15 April 2020 To cite this article: Hazmirullah, Titin Nurhayati Ma’mun and Reiza D Dienaputra. 2020. Raffles, the Naskah Kitab Hukum manuscript and social engineering of the inhabitants of Java in 1814. KEMANUSIAAN the Asian Journal of Humanities 27(1): 69–88. https://doi.org/10.21315/ kajh2020.27.1.4 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.21315/kajh2020.27.1.4 Abstract. The Naskah Kitab Hukum manuscript issued by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1814 is one of the important manuscripts in the history of a judicial system in Indonesia. The manuscript was published because Raffles, upon his early days of duty, noticed that the existing judicial system in Java was complicated and confusing, constituted in the formalities of the Roman law. This article presents a study of how the Naskah Kitab Hukum became a means of social engineering of the inhabitants of Java through at least three ways: (1) legislation process before the issuing of regulation, (2) accommodating the social cohesion of Java inhabitants into the regulation and (3) domestication of English legal terms which were not familiar to the Java inhabitants. Keywords and phrases: Raffles, Naskah Kitab Hukum manuscript, social engineering, Java, history Introduction In 1814, the third year of the British interregnum period in Java, Raffles decided to issue a regulation of the police and judicial administration. The regulation which was written in Malay by using the Jawi script or Malay Arabic now became the part of The British Library collection, under the code Mss. Eur. D. 742/1, ff. 155–166. Authors obtained a digital “copy” through the website www. bl.uk and have asked for permission to use it as the object of this research orally from Annabel Teh Gallop, the Head of the South and South East Asia section at