Yustisia Volume 9 Number 1 (January-April 2020) Social Confict Resolution through ... 1 SOCIAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION THROUGH EMPOWERMENT OF LOCAL WISDOMS Mohammad Jamin 1 1 Faculty of Law, Universitas Sebelas Maret Email: mohjamin@staff.uns.ac.id I. Introduction Society and confict are an inextricable phenomenon and a necessity that cannot be avoided as long as there has an interaction between people. Indeed, confict is a normal case; even in some aspects of the confict has a positive side for the development of society. From an anthropological perspective, confict is a social phenomenon that cannot be separated from the culture of society, especially in a multicultural society. It can be stressed that confict is something that cannot be avoided in life together (James P. Spradley and David W. McCurdy, 1987: 11). Conficts have various forms, for example, conficts between individuals, between groups, between ethnic groups, between organizations, and various other social conficts. The Indonesian nation deals with serious threats related to the potential conficts in society at any time, both vertical and horizontal. Not surprisingly, the mass media often report conficts at all levels and places. Social conficts that occur can jeopardize national integration, which is still and will continue to be a predicament that threatens the Indonesian nation existence at any time for quite a long time in the future, even though the variety and patterns are not always the same (Nasikun, 1995: 4 -5). Various social conficts are caused by complex factors that cannot be separated from the government system, economic inequality, shifting of social values, the transition of democracy from the previous era which was militaristic, centralistic, dominative, and hegemonic (Karrie McLaughlin and Ari Perdana, 2010: 3). ©2020; This is an Open Access Research distributed under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution Licencee (https://Creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original works is properly cited. Article Information Abstract Submitted: January 27, 2020 Accepted: May 02, 2020 Keywords: empowerment of local wisdom; social conficts resolution Ethnic, religious, race, and cultural diversity, as well as a large number of populations, are a treasure and strength for the Indonesian people, but on the other hand, it can be potential social conficts that jeopardize the national integrity. Local wisdom which lived generations by generations and owned by the various local community is a social asset that can be empowered in social confict resolution. Local wisdom plays an important role, not only preventing social confict but also providing breakthroughs to resolve conficts that occurred. Law Number 7 of 2012 On Social Conficts Resolution which refects the principles of local wisdom, it should be more empower those principles into reality. This empowerment can be done by actualizing the values and institutionalize of local wisdom in social confict resolution that is implemented at the stages of confict prevention, termination of the confict, and restoration of post-confict.