EARLY-AGE MARRIAGE IN PERPECTIVE OF INDONESIAN ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW
Abstract: The article below
tries to describe early age marriage according to contemporary Islamic Family
law. Actually the substance of Islamic family law is to create a social merit
for people in the present and the future. Islamic law is humane and always
brings mercy to the world. It intends to make the Islamic law remain up to
date, relevant and able to respond to the dynamics of the times. The government
prohibits early-age marriages by
several considerations. Even though, the religion does not limit the age
of marriages, but it also has a
positive value. Such a problem is quite a dilemma. Therefore, in such a
context Islam is a mercy to the
universe, including Indonesia, the grounding of Islamic law in the faces that follow the movement of the
people of Indonesia to follow the motion flow of the Indonesian people to be a necessity.
Thus, in the view of the author, in the Indonesian context, the grounding of values of Islamic
law, or, more precisely, the adaptation of
Islamic law in the social change of Indonesian people. It can be used as
a counter towards the practice of
early-age marriages that are in fact still be mistaken by most Indonesian society. Thus, the assumption that early-age
marriages are permitted by religion but
not permitted under the law is wrong and is the form of ignorance about
the history of the building concept of
the establishment of syari’ah law in general, the history and formation as well
as the enactment of the Act No. 1 in 1974 in particular, as well as the understanding and dissemination of the
concept and application of the Indonesian Fiqh.
Penulis: Nashuddin
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamgg150021
