
South Kalimantan’s Emergency : Unregistered Marriage
Tuesday (October 9th, 2018), Gender and Child Study Center (GCSC) of UIN Antasari’s Research and Community Service Institute, once again, held a National Seminar by the theme “Unregistered Marriage in South Kalimantan” at Zafri Zamzam Hall. The seminar was attended by observers of women and children, students and lecturers from the environment of UIN Antasari Banjarmasin. In this ocassion, the presented speaker, Dr.Hj. Habibah, MA, examined the discussion of unregistered marriage in the perspective of Banjar Culture.
The topic of Unregistered becomes the concern of UIN Antasari’s GCSC because it leads a serious problem in the community, especially in South Kalimantan. It is affirmed by Dr. Fatrawati Kumari, M.Hum that the problem that arises is the absence of rights for children and wives related to their health, livelihood, and protection because it is unregistered. Even the rights related to state affairs, such as voting rights, do not exist because they are constrained by administrative letters. According to a survey from the NGO of Empowering Female Heads of Household that around 25% of Indonesians conduct the unregistered marriage. A total of 111 villages from 17 provinces have high rates of unregistered marriage. Meanwhile, the research from the Research and Development Agency of Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia in 2012 found that the reason for the unregistered marriage was occurred by the desire for having polygamy life, ignorance of legal marriage regulations, so was the insufficient age of underage children, “ as Fatra said.
In South Kalimantan, unregistered marrigae has occured evenly in each district due to to ignorance and the complex presumption of official marriage requirements. In July 2018, the district of Middle Hulu Sungai had remarried 95 couples of unregistered marriage, it indicated that unregistered marriage in this area was high.
“Unregistered marriage is a trigger for violence against women and children in the household. This violence is also related to culture and wrong religious understanding. Hopefully in this seminar, we are able to provide recommendations in order to solve the series of marriage problems, “as Dr. Wardani hoped, representing UIN Antasari’s Research and Community Service Institute .