Diverity of Views on The Inequality of Men's Power Relations Over Women in The Practice of Polygamy in Indonesia

Abstract

Polygamy movement that often discredits women is increasingly taking a place in modern urban society. Polygamy has existed before Islam coming and became a legal practice which powered by the Quran after Islam coming. However, global values influence the mindset about polygamy such as Liberalist who totally reject polygamy whereas Muslims themselves (moderates and progressives) offer new ideas to tighten practice of it. Globalization not only brings view-contra but also reinforce polygamy such as Muslims urban (tend to be puritans) which developed due to the advance of technology and information that brings of textual and instant views on the Quran. Differences understanding in the community, have diverse implications for the perspective of gender equality, specifically power relations of male and female. This study aims to find out how the relation men's power over women in polygamy based on various views of the various groups above with using method literature study. Based on the research there are two groups which accept polygamy (fundamentalist and traditionalist) and group that rejects polygamy (moderate and liberalisr) while the position of women in a family basically has the same right, the condition of their position depending on family model and decision polygamy that taken by wife influenced by external condition which collects information and determines process of decision making