<![CDATA[Marriage dispensation in Indonesia allows individuals below the minimum age to marry through court authorization, creating tension between addressing urgent circumstances and preventing child marriage legalization. This research analyzes marriage dispensation's position in Indonesia's legal system and evaluates its alignment with maqāṣid al-syarī'ah principles, particularly protecting children's life, intellect, lineage, honor, education, and future. This normative legal research employs statutory, conceptual, case, and comparative approaches. Primary legal materials include Law No. 16/2019, Child Protection Law, Constitutional Court Decision No. 22/PUU-XV/2017, and Supreme Court Regulation No. 5/2019. Data were collected through literature study and analyzed descriptively-analytically and prescriptively using four-stage maqāṣidī analysis. The findings reveal that marriage dispensation is fundamentally an exceptional instrument, not an alternative pathway. Approval cannot be based solely on adultery concerns, pregnancy, dating relationships, customary pressure, or family reputation. Dispensation is justified only when proven as the option causing the least harm and strongest in ensuring the child's best interests. The novelty of this research lies in formulating a maqāṣidī-protective test framework integrating the best interests of the child principle, maslahah hierarchy, proportionality principle, and non-marriage alternative examination. The implication is that the six-stage assessment framework—urgency, competency, freedom of will, multidimensional risks, non-marriage alternatives, and post-decision protection provides concrete operational guidance for judges to ensure dispensations genuinely protect children rather than legitimize child marriage]]>
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