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Agensi Perempuan Buruh Migran dan Perceraian di Indonesia: Reafirmasi Hadis Nabi Saw Tentang Khulu’ Siti Aisyah Kara; Kasjim Salenda; Shaolee Mahboob; Ahmad Siddiq Setiawan; Siti Fatimah
Al-Ulum Vol. 26 No. 1 (2026): Al-Ulum
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sultan Amai Gorontalo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30603/au.v26i1.8422

Abstract

This study examines the factors motivating women to become migrant workers, the impacts of migration on their families, women’s agency, and its relationship to decisions to file for divorce. Using a qualitative approach, this study employs a feminist perspective and agency theory through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with female migrant workers who had filed for divorce and judges from the Religious Courts in Bima and Bulukumba. Data were analyzed through reduction, categorization, interpretation, and source triangulation. The findings show that women’s migration is primarily driven by domestic violence, the transfer of family economic responsibilities, and socio-psychological pressures. Divorce is mainly triggered by infidelity, misuse of remittances, husbands’ irresponsibility, marital disharmony, and poor communication. Migration strengthens women’s economic independence and identity but also creates risks of emotional separation, marital conflict, and psychological impacts on children. From the perspective of Prophetic hadith, the story of the wife of Thabit ibn Qays demonstrates women’s space to express marital dissatisfaction and seek dissolution through khulu‘. Thus, the hadith provides a normative basis for recognizing women’s agency without normalizing divorce, while affirming women’s dignity, safety, and well-being.
Co-Authors A. Astri Surya Ramadani Abd. Qadir Gassing Abdul Fattah Abdul Wahid Haddade Abubakar, Achmad Ahmad Fauzan Ahmad Fauzi Sudirman Ahmad Siddiq Setiawan Ahmad Zulfikar Aidil, Andi Muhammad Al Qifari, Abudzar Ambo Asse Aminullah Aminullah, Aminullah Amiruddin Amiruddin Amirullah -, Amirullah Andi Indra Puteri Arfan Arfan Arhamarrahimin Arina Putri Ashabul Kahpi ASNI Azhar Arsyad Deti, Sri Edi Gunawan Farhani, Aan Gassing, A Qadir Gassing, Abd. Qadir H, Mursalim Hamza Hasan Hamza Hasan Hamzah Hasan Hasjim, Ilman HT, A. Qadir Gassing Jamaluddin Jamaluddin Kaprawi Kasman Bakry Kasman Bakry Kurnia Kurniati Kurniati Mardan Marilang Massadi, Massadi Muhammad Bakri, Muammar Muhammad Muhammad Muhammad Nafi Muhammad Nur Muhammad Nur Muhammad Sabri Muhammad Saleh Ridwan Mujahidin Mujahidin Mujahidul Haq, Ahmad Hamdan Muljono Damopolii Munadi Munadi Munira Munira Mursalim H Mutmainna Nahhan, Muh. Nasaruddin Nasaruddin Nur Afni A. Nur Ahmad U Nurfadillah Nurman Said Nurwahidah Palangkey, Rahmi Dewanty Rahman Syamsuddin Rahman, Sainul Rahmatiah HL Rahmatiah Rahmatiah Rahmi Dewanty Palangkey Ridwan Roziana Shaari Sabri Samin Sanusi, Nur Taufiq Shaari, Roziana Shaolee Mahboob Sirajuddin Sirajuddin Siti Aisyah Kara Siti Fatimah Sohrah Subli, Mohamad Sucianti, Indah Sudirman Sudirman Sudirman Sudirman Sudirman, Sudirman Syahabuddin, Syahabuddin Syam, Anna Rahma Syamsu Rijal, Tabhan Syamsuddin, Darussalam Syatar, Abdul Tabhan Syamsu Rijal Tahir, Juraeri Tarmizi Tarmizi Umar Umar Usman Jafar Wildayanti Yussuf, Ahmad Zakaria Wahab