Underage Marriage: Celebrity Ustadz and Islam Hegemonic Value

Keywords

Underage Marriage;, Hegemony, Critical Discourse Analysis, Online media

Abstract

Religion and science are two discourses that compete and negotiate in the history of the debates of sexuality and gender, including the determination of the criteria whether a person can engage in sexual activity and marriage or not. The scientific discourse gives guidelines regarding the minimum age that determines the readiness of the person to marry, judging from the person's maturity, both psychically and mentally. Meanwhile, the religion discourse in Indonesia, with Muslims as the majority, has agreed that someone who has reached "Ax Baligh" is considered ready to marry. Using Norman Fairclough discourse analysis as the method, this paper examines three layers of discourse: text, discursive practices, and socio-cultural conditions on the representation of Muhammad Alvin Faiz 's marriage (17 years), son of Arifin Ilham (Ustadz and celebrity) in the online news and discussions on Merdeka.com. Islamic values in socio-cultural conditions are not negotiated with the scientific discourse. Result shows that there are hegemonic values that make the discursive practices of the conversation about under-age marriage tend to ignore the minimum age criteria of marriage for men as contained in the Marriage Act 1974.

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© 2018, 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  - Justitio Adiprasetyo
AU  - Alnashava Preciosa Jantra
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Underage Marriage: Celebrity Ustadz and Islam Hegemonic Value
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 45
EP  - 48
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902367
ID  - Adiprasetyo2017/11
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