<![CDATA[The interpretation of marriage validity in Indonesia is frequently trapped in legal formalism, which reduces "validity" to mere administrative compliance and procedural norms. This normative legal research employs philosophical, statutory, and conceptual approaches to reconceptualize the nature of marriage validity. The analyzed legal materials encompass Quranic verses, Hadith, Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh), the doctrine of maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, the Compilation of Islamic Law (KHI), and marriage legislation. The findings present a reconstruction of marriage validity, shifting from formal validity to substantive validity grounded in maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah. Under this paradigm, marriage registration is established as a legal-religious instrument (wasīlah shar‘iyyah) that perfects religious legitimacy to operationalize the protection of honor (ḥifẓ al-‘irḍ), lineage (ḥifẓ an-nasl), and property (ḥifẓ al-māl). Concretely, this research provides significant contributions to legal policy reform and judicial decision-making in safeguarding the civil rights of women and children—specifically lineage certainty, inheritance, and maintenance—while assigning an active obligation to the state in facilitating marriage registration.]]>
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