The book you have in your hands right now is not to see how the roles of the Sultansin various political and economic domains during the regional autonomy era, but to try to explore the history of the Sultanate of Riau-Lingga that has now expanded into the province of Riau-Lingga Islands. There are three aspects that draw writers’. Those three aspects derive from a discussion on current problems regarding bureaucracy and governance, on the pluralism of law and culture – the issues that have caught a big interest from social researchers.