PERSEPSI PEREMPUAN TENTANG PERCERAIAN DI KOTA PADANG

Abstract

Woman Perception on Divorce in Padang Central City. Islam set down marriage rule as a means of acquiring happiness. In reality, however, it marriage conflict may occur, and often cannot be resolved and that it leads to divorce. This study is a qualitative study seeking to reveal the causes of increasing divorce rate in the Religious Court of Padang, and to unveil women’s perceptions concerning divorce in Padang. By using qualitative method, the data is collected from the documents of the Grade I A Religious Court of Padang, and interviews with those women who file legal divorce suit, judges, clerks, lawyers, and women scholars. The findings reveal that the undelying factors of divorce rate increase are due to women’s education improvement, increasinglegal awareness, the availability of career opportunities, changing social stigma against divorced women and weakening understanding of religious values among women. Women in Padang perceive that divorce is no longer a taboo and embarrassing, since grants womens’ rights to file divorce in the court, and thus seen as an alternative solution to.

Keywords

• perceraian
• gugatan cerai
• khuluk
• perempuan