Urgency of Regulation of Marriage Registration in Indonesia

Abstract

Regulation of marriage registration contained in Article 2, paragraph 2 of Law No. 1 of 1974 on Marriage, which in practice they give rise to various interpretations. Because of the vagueness of the norm raises a lot of people who still perform the marriage without registration, with a variety of backgrounds. Though unregistered marriage has caused adverse effects, especially for children and women. Therefore, a urgency of regulation marriage registration in order to realize the legal certainty‎, justice and expediency. Besides setting required registration of marriages in the context of the protection of human rights and justice. In the context of human rights protection, because the social contract with the people hand over their rights to the state, but in order to protect that individual rights are not violated by other individuals. While the role in the context of justice, a regulation marriage registration is to make the rules as a guide to develop policies that correct the injustice suffered by the weak.

Keywords: regulation, marriage registrattion, human rights, and justice