BERITA SOLO - During this time marriages with more than one wife or polygamy occurred in Indonesia, including in Aceh. It's just that polygamy is carried out in a siri or marriage under the hand.
As a result, many women get unfair and unprotected their rights as wives or mothers of children born in siri marriages. To overcome this problem, the Aceh Government will legalize polygamy.
Currently polygamy is regulated in the Draft Law on Family Law which is being processed by Commission VII of the DPRA. The draft qanun is planned to be ratified as a qanun in September, towards the end of the term of office for members of the DPRA for the period of 2014-2019.
Deputy Chairperson of DPRA Commission VII, Musannif, revealed that his party is currently conducting a consultation process on the draft qanun to Jakarta, namely to the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) and the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (Ministry of PPPA).
"We are consulting the draft qanun and currently I am in Jakarta for that purpose," Musannif said yesterday.
The draft Family Law Qanun, according to Musannif, is the proposal of the executive (Aceh Government). The DPRA then studied the proposed draft and considered that the rules contained in it could be implemented in Aceh as an area with Islamic law.
The provisions stipulated in the draft qanun, among others, involve marriage, divorce, inheritance, and polygamy.
Musannif said, in the provisions of polygamy there are stipulated about the conditions of polygamy, one of which must be a permit issued by the judge "Mahmakah Syar'iyah".
"In Islamic law, this permit is actually not needed. But in the state administrative requirements, we want it to be there so that not everyone can do polygamy, "he explained.
Other conditions that are also regulated are economic ability and physical and spiritual health. Provisions on the number of wives are also adjusted to Islamic law, which is limited to four people, and if you want more than that, then one must be divorced.
"In Islamic law, men are allowed to marry up to four people. Only sometimes this man thinks only in the phrase olehkan allowed to four ’, while the following verse‘ which is just ’is not considered. It's just the most important thing that we want to go to, not when he wants to take facilities, his obligations are not carried out, "Musannif concluded.
- Asnawi
