UNREGISTERED MARRIED TYPOLOGY IN EAST JAVA, INDONESIA

Abstract

An unregistered marriage considered legitimate by sharia actually raises many problems which impact on the disadvantage for women. Therefore, the researchers conducted a study on unregistered marriage in the perspective of East Java ulama with a qualitative approach. In this study, marriage typology followed Weber's idea which distinguishes between four major types of social action: Zwerck rational (instrumentally rational), Wert rational (value-oriented rational), affective (affection) action, and traditional action. The informants were chosen purposively from 7 districts/municipalities of East Java consisting of Kyai of Pondok Pesantren (Islamic Boarding School) and officials of the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The findings obtained in this study are (1) the factors behind the unregistered marriages (2) East Java ulama’s perspective, and (3) the patterns of unregistered marriage in nine social action-oriented typologies.