Implications of Unregistered Marriage for Women: Profitable or Detrimental

Abstract

In Islam, marriage is a form of worship recommended by the Prophet Muhammad, so that the law is Sunnah. Marriage is something very sacred where a man and woman are united by a marriage bond and become a couple as husband and wife. Marriage is declared valid if it is carried out following religious law. In Indonesia, exist the term unregistered marriage. However, Indonesia s law considers marriage invalid if the KUA institution does not register the marriage even though it has carried out a marriage procession according to its religious law. This certainly has implications, both positive and negative, for couples, especially women. This is a normative legal research. The result of this study is it can be concluded that unregistered marriage is very detrimental to women Keywords : Unregistered Marriage, Law, Detrimental