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Marriage in Indonesia is carried out by one sacred recipient man and one woman with the intention of formalizing the marriage bond according to religious norms, legal norms, and social norms. Conditions of marriage by law
Law of Indonesia is based on a civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and Dutch law.Before European presence and colonization began in the sixteenth century, indigenous kingdoms ruled the archipelago independently with their own custom laws, known as adat (unwritten, traditional rules still observed in the Indonesian society). [1]
What do Indonesia’s new laws say about sex? The new laws criminalize extramarital sex with a potential punishment of up to one year in prison or a fine, Al Jazeera reported. However, only a ...
Article 1 of the Law No. 1 of 1974 on Marriage (Indonesian: Undang-undang No. 1 Tahun 1994 Tentang Perkawinan) states that marriage is "a physical and spiritual bond between a man and a woman as husband and wife, having the purpose of establishing a happy and lasting family founded on the Belief in God Almighty". [12]
Indonesian military personnel are only permitted to practice polygamy if their religion allows it. [4] Additionally, he must prove to the government that his first wife is unable to carry out her duties as a wife. [5] Polygamy under Balinese Hinduism is sanctioned and unrestricted, but the marriage is regulated by adat (traditional customs). [1]
Saudi sex tourists are buying weeklong marriages to young women in Indonesia. It's an economic lifeline for villages. For the women, it's 'torture.'
In 1974, women's groups pressured the government to revise the marriage laws. Under the terms of Marriage Law No. 1, the colonial system which had four different schemes — the Dutch East Indian variant of the old version of the Dutch Burgerlijk Wetboek, Ordinance for Christian Indonesians, Islamic law, and the Regulation for Mixed Marriages ...
According to Lebanese Marital Law, individuals aged between 15 (14 in the case of females with judicial consent) and 18, may marry in exceptional cases (when factoring in areas of the law, such as and including both parental and judicial consent), and in the cases of females - marriage is allowed outright, as an unrestricted right, from the age ...