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Reformulation of Marriage Law Based on a Gender Justice Perspective

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  • Suyuti Dahlan Rifa’i

    Universitas Sunan Gresik, Gresik, Indonesia

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  • Muhammad Haris Luthfi

    Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia

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  • Muhammad Abbas Noer

    Universitas Bung Karno, Jakarta, Indonesia

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  • Olivia Noufal Layla

    Al Qasimia University, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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Keywords:
Gender justice, Marriage law, Reformulation, Social construction, Substantive equality
Abstract

When marriage law continues to perpetuate the myth of nature that places family relationships in an invisible hierarchical structure, reformulating it through the perspective of gender justice becomes not merely a project of revising norms, but an effort to overhaul the way the law understands power, the body, work, and human dignity within the institution of the family. The purpose of this study is to critically analyse the current construction of marriage law from a gender justice perspective and to formulate a model for reformulating marriage law that is more responsive to the principle of gender equality. This study uses a qualitative, normative-constructive legal research design, which is reflectively combined with conceptual analysis and a socio-legal approach. The results confirm that the main problem with modern marriage law is not merely the existence of explicitly discriminatory norms, but rather a legal structure that subtly normalises inequality through the concepts of nature, family morality, and the design of rights and obligations that ignore power and economic relations within the household. The reformulation of marriage law based on gender justice, therefore, requires more radical changes than simply revising articles requires a reconstruction of the paradigm that views marriage as a socio-economic institution that distributes authority, work, risk, and welfare among family members. Family law must move from a model of moral protection towards a model of distributive justice that places individual autonomy, protection of care work, and economic accountability as the foundations of family regulation.

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Reformulation of Marriage Law Based on a Gender Justice Perspective. (2026). Indonesian Journal of Gender Justice and Family Law, 1(1), 69-85. https://ejournal.mahkotascience.org/index.php/ingefal/article/view/5