© 2020 |Published by Scholars Middle East Publishers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 161 Scholars International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice Abbreviated Key Title: Sch Int J Law Crime Justice ISSN 2616-7956 (Print) |ISSN 2617-3484 (Online) Scholars Middle East Publishers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Journal homepage: https://saudijournals.com/sijlcj Original Research Article Establishment of Institutions and Empowerment of Dayak Tradition (Study in Murung Raya District) Saut Romy Situmeang * , Setia Budhi, Jamal Uddin Master Program of Government Science, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin, Indonesia DOI: 10.36348/sijlcj.2020.v03i06.002 | Received: 29.05.2020 | Accepted: 05.06.2020 | Published: 12.06.2020 *Corresponding author: Saut Romy Situmeang Abstract This study aims to analyze the institutional formation and empowerment of Dayak Adat in the Murung Raya District area and the supporting and inhibiting factors for the implementation of the Institutional Formation and the empowerment of the Dayak Adat in the Murung Subdistrict area. The research approach uses qualitative research because the research problems studied are holistic, complex, dynamic, and full of meaning. The research method is field research which is a type of research that is oriented towards collecting empirical data in the field. Data collection techniques in this study were carried out by interview, some notes that were found in the field, and available documentation relating to this research. Data analysis is carried out using several key steps namely reducing data and presenting data to process the data that has been reduced in the form of a brief description that illustrates the findings of the study. The results of research on empowerment and preservation and development of Customs, customs in the community and Customary Institutions in the Regions are supporting the smooth running of the Government, the continuity of development and enhancing national resilience as well as to encourage efforts to prosper local citizens and encourage, support and increase community participation for fluency Government, Implementation of development and community development in the Region. Keywords: Institutional, Empowerment, and Dayak Tradition. Copyright @ 2020: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial use (NonCommercial, or CC-BY-NC) provided the original author and source are credited. PRELIMINARY A new era of regional autonomy in Indonesia has been established ConstitutionNumber 23 of 2014 replaces Law Number 32 of 2004 concerning regional government entering a new round of regional government system [1]. Many positive aspects are expected to strengthen the implementation of regional autonomy, one of the new changes is in the authority of the administration of government affairs at the central and regional levels. The spirit of Law 23 of 2014 concerning regional government is to redefine Regional Autonomy. Conceptually the granting of the broadest possible autonomy to the Regions is directed to accelerate the realization of people's welfare through service improvement, empowerment, and community participation [2]. Broad autonomy, in the strategic environment of globalization, the Region is expected to be able to increase competitiveness by paying attention to the principles of democracy, equity, justice, privileges, and specificities as well as the potential and diversity of Regions in the system of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia [3]. Regional Autonomy in the context of state law is implemented based on the principle of a unitary state. In a unitary state, sovereignty is only in the state government or national government and there is no sovereignty in the Region. Therefore, the area of any autonomy granted to the Region, the final responsibility for the administration of the Regional Government will remain in the hands of the Central Government. In the local government, the empowerment of community and village affairs as basic non-service compulsory affairs is realized informing the Office of Community and Village Empowerment or other designations before the adjustment of the law in the form of Community Empowerment and Village Government. There are adjustments to the structure and workload organization. For this reason, with the formation of the PMD Office, one of the main tasks which are the business of the regional government is the matter of community empowerment. Thus, the government apparatus in the region is always demanded to take a large role in empowering the people in its territory [4].