¹Iffatin Nur,²Gresia Belgis Dian Sari,³Hiba Fajarwati,⁴Divia Nur Alan Nur Ilmas

^1,2,3Graduate School, UIN Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah Tulungagung, Jln. Mayor Sujadi Timur No. 46 Tulungagung, East Java, Indonesia

⁴Faculty of Law, UPN ‘Veteran’ Jawa Timur, Jln. Raya Rungkut Madya, Gunung Anyar, Surabaya,
East Java, Indonesia

An artwork by an Indonesian young artist with a theme of eating human corpse had reaped controversy from various circles. The concept of art displayed by Natasha Gabriella Tontey, the artist-, was endocannibalism, a practice in which people eat the body of a dead person. In her art performance, she presented a dish of foods made from breast milk and baby sweat. To add to her artistic power, she showed processed foods served in the forms of tiny babies, baby brains, and several other horror menus. The artwork done was very controversial, so it is deemed necessary to conduct a review on her artwork from the conventional and Islamic laws’ perspectives. The study is qualitative research employing descriptive analysis. The results indicate that Tontey’s work as outlined in her performance violated both the Indonesian and Islamic laws.

cannibalism; makan mayit; eating human corpse; conventional law; Islamic law; maqāṣid fi al-jināyah

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