Water Finds Its Level: 100 Adat Proverbs on Balance, Justice, and Social Order
Across the archipelago, from the mist-veiled highlands to the tide-shaped coasts, adat law has long upheld the belief that the world is governed by an invisible but unbreakable equilibrium. In many Indonesian and Southeast Asian communities, justice is not merely a set of rules, it is the steady flow of moral consequence. Indonesian proverbs echo this belief, and people say
