The Ministry Of Religion Stimulates Religious Courts As Not To Prevent Religious Marriages, But...

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) emphasized that religious courts do not ratify marriages of different religions. But district courts can order the Population and Civil Registration Office to register the marriage. "Religious justices have a basis for recommending, to be recorded. So when it is approved, people who marry different religions are registered, but that does not mean that the religious court ratifies it. So our law is like that," said Director General of Islamic Community Guidance at the Ministry of Religion Kamaruddin Amin in Jakarta, Antara, Thursday, September 29. According to him, the provisions are contained in the law on population administration and the law on marriage. In addition, according to the fatwa of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), marriage of different religions is unlawful and illegal. Director of KUA and Sakinah Family Development at the Ministry of Religion Adib Machrus explained that the ministry had discussed the issue of marriage of different religions with a number of experts in discussion forums. According to him, the forum agreed that in accordance with the provisions in the marriage law, marriage is called legal if it is carried out based on their respective religious laws. "It was agreed as a general norm about the inability of different religions for marriage. This is the basis for all of them," he said. He said that the experts also agreed that registering for marriages of different religions at the Population and Civil Registration Office could only be carried out in an urgent manner.