This book explores how women deal with the realm of marriage in Lombok, eastern Indonesia. It draws on women s narratives of their marital trajectories, recounting their stories of courtship, marital discord, and experiences of divorce, remarriage and polygamy. In this part of Indonesia, which is strongly Islamic, up to seventy per cent of marriages are informal and unregistered, legalised only under Islamic, not state, law. The book examines the consequences of this, which include the fact that in Islamic law divorce can only be initiated by a man, whose pronouncement of divorce is final...
This book explores how women deal with the realm of marriage in Lombok, eastern Indonesia. It draws on women s narratives of their marital trajecto...