Underage Marriage Registration at the Office of Religious Affairs in Ambon City: A Legal Certainty Perspective
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https://doi.org/10.33506/js.v12i3.5783Keywords:
Marriage Registration, Legal Certainty, Office of Religious AffairsAbstract
This study aims to analyze the implementation of underage marriage registration at the Office of Religious Affairs (KUA) in Ambon City, specifically evaluating the normative and functional limitations of its administrative authority in ensuring legal certainty.
The research method employed a normative-empirical approach. The empirical approach was used to obtain primary data through interviews with informants and document review, while the normative approach was used to obtain secondary data from books, journals, and online sources. The data obtained were analyzed qualitatively using a descriptive-analytical method.
The novelty of this study lies in the conceptualization of structural regulatory gaps: although the KUA has fully fulfilled its administrative mandate, this institution lacks jurisdiction over unregistered underage marriages, thereby revealing institutional limitations in addressing socio-religious practices within society
The results of the study indicate that although the KUA strictly enforces the minimum age requirement by refusing to register marriages without a marriage dispensation issued by the Religious Court, this strict administrative compliance does not automatically result in preventive effectiveness, given that informal religious marriages continue to take place outside state oversight.
This study concludes that child marriage is a complex legal and sociocultural challenge, not merely an obstacle to administrative registration. Although the KUA has functioned as an effective gatekeeper in maintaining administrative order, strengthening cross-sectoral child protection mechanisms and public legal awareness is essential to align administrative certainty with the substantive objectives of the Marriage Law.
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