I Wayan Wesna Astara
The culture in strengthening traditional villages, there is a tug of war between Balinese culture and the politics of state law. The state seeks to save Balinese traditional villages, by producing public policies to defend traditional villages. Behind the state's protection against traditional villages, there is hegemony of traditional villages in the form of the texts of existing articles, and there is even a contradiction between strengthening and state hegemony. The legal culture of Balinese society reflects the culture of deliberation in decision making in traditional villages in Bali. This normatively can be realized in the traditional village awig-awig and based on the Pancasila ideology. The research methodology used is a cultural study which is elaborated with the method of socio-legal law as ontology in the perspective of cultural studies. The results of the study found that traditional villages in Bali have origin rights, have awig-awig, customary village prajuru, own wealth, village Sabha, Kertha Desa as village peace judges as village republic. There is the value of local wisdom Tri Hita Karana, as a philosophy in social religious behavior. This power, by the state, has an interest in being strengthened by the state, but with the addition of the Traditional Village Council Institution at various levels, it is as if the new institution's power is a power, but has hegemonic the traditional village institution into being no longer autonomous. This is a legal political policy that also needs to be studied further for the empowerment of traditional villages in Bali in the future.