Drs. Nuryamin Aini, MA: The Empirical Facts of Interfaith Marriage

The crucial problems of interfaith marriage involve one’s private right to choose one’s spouse and the stigmas associated with interfaith marriage prohibition as well as bureaucratic resistance. Nuryamin Aini, an alumnus of Flinders University in Australia, shows that the consequences are that sometimes that couples of different religions often resort to manipulating the law (hilah) and become ambivalent and hypocritical in order to slip out of the trap of the marriage registration bureaucracy.