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Divorce rate in Indonesia highest in Asia Pacific
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by imung satriani | September 21, 2007 at 07:49 pm
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The number of divorce cases in Indonesia has reached 200 thousand each year, the highest rate in the Asia Pacific region, data said.Serious disputes in marriage have become the main reason for a divorce, Karuniawati, the East Java provincial chapter of the Prosperous and Justice Party (PKS) said here on Friday.
Karuniawati, head of women`s affairs division of PKS said that although the local religious high court (PTA) had suggested solutions, urging the disputing couples to cancel their planned divorce, only about 1,000 couples withdrew their law suits in Surabaya.
Chairperson of the PKS provincial chapter expressed concern over the great number of divorce cases in Surabaya, capital city of East Java province in recent years.
Data showed that the number of divorce cases in East Java alone in 2003 reached 40,391, in 2004 increased to 42,769, but in 2005 skyrocketed to 55,509 cases.
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at 04:03 on November 26th, 2008
If you look at divorce statistics in Indonesia you will see that the divorce rate over the last decades actually decreased sharply...so 20, 30 or 40 years ago there was much more divorce in INdonesia than nowadays. That's reality, not just my view. Eventhough the divorce rate started to decline well before the 1974 marriage law, this law and stricter enforcment and regulations concerning divorce make it harder and more complicated to divorce than before. Very early and often arranged marrriage were reasons for a high divorce rate decades ago...at least in some parts of Indonesia. Similar developments could be seen in Malaysia. It might be that in recenty years the divorce rate has started to increase again...but has by far not reached levels of 30 or more years ago.
I think it is important to highlight that because today some religious leaders and conservative forces (like PKS) want to blame "western" moral values and globalisation for a increasing divorce rate. In reality it used to be much higher before. Of course some of the reasons of divorce can change over time and nowadays more women initiate divorce than before.