<![CDATA[Minor assault cases often arise from interpersonal disputes and may leave relational harm that cannot be fully addressed through retributive punishment alone. This study examines how restorative justice and religious justice can be harmonized within judicial reasoning in minor assault cases without weakening legality, victim protection, or the rule of law. The study employs normative legal research using statutory, conceptual, and case approaches. Primary legal materials include legislation, judicial regulations, and relevant court decisions, while secondary materials comprise recent legal scholarship on restorative justice, judicial reasoning, living law, and religious values. The analysis identifies normative intersections and limits for integrating recovery, responsibility, remorse, forgiveness, reconciliation, and social harmony into judicial considerations. The findings show that restorative and religious justice converge at the level of moral responsibility and relational recovery, but their judicial use must remain rights-based, voluntary, non-discriminatory, and legally accountable. The study proposes a four-dimensional model of judicial consideration comprising legality, victim recovery, offender accountability, and socio-moral context. This model strengthens substantive justice while preserving legal certainty and preventing religious values from becoming an autonomous basis for adjudication.]]>
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