Abstract
Indonesia is a collectivist country that adopts their traditional law called adat as part of their system besides constitution and Islamic law. Adat has sets of rules for marriage and much of the time, Indonesian are confirmed to the rule. But the survey shows that there is evidence of a woman who decided not to get married despite adat rules. Thus, this study explores the reason women who decided to not marry using a phenomenological approach to capture their experience leads to the decision. The study found that family is the main reason for their decision. They experience their parents' divorce and demanding family whose follow adat rule and suppress them to marry. Therefore, both participants decided marriage is not for everyone and not the only source of happiness.
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