Legal Protection for Women as Victims of Domestic Violence with Restorative Justice Resolution

Abstract

Marriage is a physical and spiritual bond between a man and a woman as husband and wife with the aim of forming a happy and eternal family based on the Almighty God, therefore the integrity and harmony in the household to be happy, safe, and peaceful is a desire of every person both before and after marriage. A household is a group of people or individuals who are united by the basis of legal and religious ties and have the same main goal of forming a harmonious family, a household can also be interpreted as the smallest community of a society, a peaceful and peaceful household is certainly the hope of everyone, to be able to realize this depends on each individual in one household, especially in behaving, being able to maintain attitudes and control themselves in each person in the household. Domestic violence is very vulnerable to occur in the household. In this case, victims of domestic violence do not only befall wives or husbands but also people who are in the household. However, in general, victims of domestic violence are mostly women who are considered very weak creatures. In the Islamic view, it is emphasized that the purpose of a household is to establish a sense of affection and fulfill peace (sakinah) in the household. Therefore, Islam firmly rejects the crime of domestic violence. Domestic violence in the Domestic Violence Law is any act against a person, especially women, which results in physical, sexual, psychological misery or suffering and/or neglect of the household, including committing acts, coercion, or unlawful deprivation of liberty in the household.