The Legality of Trans-Sexual Marriage in Indonesia
Authors
Nurul Hikmah, Pudji Astuti, Budi Hermono
Corresponding Author
Nurul Hikmah
Available Online November 2019.
- 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).
- Copyright
- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
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 ER -