Abstract

This article discusses challenges posed by the implementation of international human rights law through the case of child marriage in Indonesia. Supporting data consist mostly of court decisions and interviews with judges carried out at three separate Islamic courts in West Java. Results show that the Indonesian pluralistic legal system is structurally organized so as to accommodate human rights norms with religious concerns and customary practices, which therefore provides judges with significant leeway in arbitrating between different types of law, which conflict on the question of child marriage. Left at the discretion of judges, rulings on child marriage cases may result in religious or customary law being favoured over state and international law. Judges do so to ‘protect children’ from social stigma, which is associated with pregnancy and sexual intercourse out of wedlock.

中文翻译：

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西爪哇儿童婚姻合法化的法律推理：伊斯兰法院对当地规范的调解和儿童保护的悖论

摘要

本文讨论了通过印度尼西亚的童婚案件实施国际人权法带来的挑战。支持性数据主要包括法院判决和在西爪哇三个独立的伊斯兰法院进行的法官访谈。结果表明，印度尼西亚的多元法律体系在结构上得到了组织，以适应具有宗教关注和习惯习俗的人权规范，因此为法官在不同类型的法律之间进行仲裁提供了很大的余地，这些法律在童婚问题上发生了冲突。留给法官酌处权，关于童婚案件的裁决可能导致宗教或习惯法优于国家和国际法。法官这样做是为了“保护儿童”免受社会污名，