Legal Study of Family Resilience: Domestic Violence as Cause for Women for Divorce in Purwokerto

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201209.341How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Domestic Violence, Family, Legal Study, Purwokerto, Woman’s Rights

Abstract

This article is focusing on the legal study and discussing in the area of Acts: the women’s rights and social stigma related to divorce cases because of domestic violence in Purwokerto. The objective of this research is to find out the legal study of victims’ rights especially women’s rights in the family’s conflict -domestic violence- in Purwokerto. This research is conducted by using the mixed-research method. It explored data through five elements in Purwokerto. Such as two courts (14 divorce cases) and government institutions, non-government organizations (NGOs), and 100 participants randomly. There was a tendency for women who sue their partners to prefer other reasons than domestic violence. Such a phenomenon is certainly captured as a failure in the concept of domestic violence in families in our societies and Indonesia’s regulations of marriage. Finally, the result of this research is to enhance and enlighten the concept of family to be able to have strengthened resilience in a family and awareness the right of members of the family especially the rights of women in the family.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meliana Damayanti
AU  - Siti Haniyah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/14
TI  - Legal Study of Family Resilience: Domestic Violence as Cause for Women for Divorce in Purwokerto
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Law, Government and Social Justice (ICOLGAS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 588
EP  - 594
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201209.341
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.341
ID  - Damayanti2020
ER  -