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JAKARTA - Indonesian pro-polygamy groups are not only facing protest from angry housewives and women's rights activists; a new group of men calling themselves the Men’s Coalition against Polygamy (Kolmi) has also joined the struggle. Kolmi spokesman Abdul Hamim Fauzie said via a statement in the capital Jakarta on Sunday that the coalition considered the practice of polygamous marriage degrading, not only to women, but to men as well.
"Facts show that polygamy leads to nothing but domestic violence, discrimination and the abuse of human rights. However, polygamists often argue that polygamy is necessary to avoid infidelity and love affairs. They also claim that polygamy is a part of their religious beliefs. Men use these arguments to justify their polygamous practices." Abdul Hamim Fauzie.
The coalition also said that it regretted a number of discriminative articles in the current marriage law in Indonesia. The law legalises men to have more than one legal wife when their spouses are seriously ill or sexually incapable. "This is very unfair, especially to women, because the law only accommodates the needs of men,” Abdul said.
Meanwhile, Muslim scholar Siti Musdah Mulia said that people practising polygamous marriages who quoted verses from the Muslim holy book or Koran to justify their behaviour were misinterpreting the message. “Those people must not quote the Koran by verse. They need to read the whole context and understand its real essence before saying the Koran endorses polygamy,” she said.
Musdah said the Koran actually says that Islam aimed to eradicate polygamous practices, not to endorse them. “Islam considers polygamy an unjust practice that originated in the dark ages. Therefore, Islam sought to eradicate such practices, but due to the severe reaction it caused, it took some time to fully eradicate the practice from the culture at that time,” she said.
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