The Legality of Trans-Sexual Marriage in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/icss-19.2019.153How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Marriage; trans-sexual; legality

Abstract

Trans-sexual marriage is marriage between a man and a woman; which one ofthem has a genital-change; the problem is whether the marriage is legal according Indonesian National Law. Relating to Article 2 of Law Number 1 of 1974 on Marriage regulate that the legality of a marriage (in Indonesia) must be based on the legality of marriage according to the religion of the parties who get married. None of religions that recognized in Indonesia allows trans-sexual marriages. It means trans-sexual marriage is illegal according to Law Number 1 of 1974 on Marriage (Marriage Law).

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© 2019, 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  - Nurul Hikmah
AU  - Pudji Astuti
AU  - Budi Hermono
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - The Legality of Trans-Sexual Marriage in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science 2019 (ICSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 448
EP  - 451
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icss-19.2019.153
DO  - 10.2991/icss-19.2019.153
ID  - Hikmah2019/11
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