The Urgency of Gorontalo Traditional Cultural Regulation Expression as a Form of Legal Protection for National Culture

The diversity of tribes, languages, customs, and beliefs that exist in Indonesia makes Indonesia as a traditional culture-rich country. In the context of cultural diversity, a Dutch legal expert, Van Vollen Hoven has divided into 19 customary law territories, which of course has a distinctive cultural characteristic, which is undoubtedly different. Indonesia has 1,128 tribes spread across Indonesia with more than 300 regional dialects, more than 3,000 (three thousand) native Indonesian dances, and there are various other arts such as traditional songs, traditional musical instruments, traditional arts, etc. As one of the provinces in Indonesia, Gorontalo has a cultural expression wealth from regional stories, songs, traditional clothes, to local martial arts known as long. The expression of traditional culture must be protected and preserved, regarding the social conditions, and the current world development, both the flow of globalization put IT progress as one of the global currents. The urgency of traditional cultural expression settings is that there will be protected and legal guarantees which can be a medium for improvement of society and region welfare, as well as a form of appreciation and struggle to preserve and protect the cultural heritage of our ancestors.