Beyond Legal Dissolution: An Islamic Restorative Framework for Post-Divorce Hostility and Relational Justice in Contemporary Indonesia

Nanda Devi Krisna Putri; Ahmad Rofi'i; Yusuf Agung Purnama; Andini Grace Tinia; Istikharoh Istikharoh

doi:10.52496/mjhki.v4i2.117

Authors

Nanda Devi Krisna Putri Universitas Islam Negeri Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon Author
Ahmad Rofi'i Universitas Islam Negeri Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon Author
Yusuf Agung Purnama Institut Studi Islam Al-Amin Indramayu, Indonesia Author
Andini Grace Tinia Universitas Galuh Author
Istikharoh Istikharoh Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Al Ghazali Cilacap Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52496/mjhki.v4i2.117

Keywords:

Divorce; post-divorce hostility; emotional trauma; Islamic family law; Indonesian Muslim families.

Abstract

Divorce legally dissolves a marriage, but it does not extinguish relational obligations concerning children, maintenance, property, dignity, and continuing communication between former spouses. Existing Indonesian studies tend to examine psychological distress, child custody, post-divorce maintenance, or mediation separately, leaving limited explanation of how Islamic family-law principles can operate as an integrated normative framework for post-divorce hostility. This article examines how post-divorce hostility should be understood and resolved through Islamic family law in dialogue with Indonesian positive law and religious-court practice. The study employs normative legal research combined with an integrative literature review. Qur’anic norms, Indonesian marriage and child-protection law, the Compilation of Islamic Law, Supreme Court mediation rules and chamber guidelines, selected court practice, and relevant psychological and socio-legal scholarship are analyzed through doctrinal interpretation and thematic synthesis. The findings show that emotional wounds, structural disputes, social pressure, and formalistic mediation become legally relevant when they generate relational harm (ḍarar), undermine welfare (maṣlaḥah), or threaten the objectives of Islamic law (maqashid al-syariah). The article develops an Islamic Post-Divorce Relational Justice framework grounded in iḥsān, maʿrūf, Tasrih bi ihsan, non-harm, child welfare, equitable responsibility, and restorative mediation. Its original contribution is to shift the analytical focus from legal dissolution to a dignified, child-sensitive, enforceable, and non-harmful transition after divorce within the Indonesian Religious Court context.

Author Biographies

Nanda Devi Krisna Putri, Universitas Islam Negeri Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon

Universitas Islam Negeri Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon, Indonesia
Ahmad Rofi'i, Universitas Islam Negeri Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon

Universitas Islam Negeri Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon, Indonesia
Yusuf Agung Purnama, Institut Studi Islam Al-Amin Indramayu, Indonesia

Institut Studi Islam Al-Amin Indramayu, Indonesia
Andini Grace Tinia, Universitas Galuh

Universitas Galuh, Indonesia
Istikharoh Istikharoh, Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Al Ghazali Cilacap

Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Al Ghazali Cilacap, Indonesia

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