KEKERASAN DALAM RUMAH TANGGA DALAM PERSEPSI TOKOH AGAMA ISLAM DI PULAU AMBON

Abstract

This paper examines issues of domestic violence in the perception of Islamic religious leaders on the island of Ambon. The problems in this paper are how the forms, perpetrators, and victims of domestic violence, which are dominant in society. Data were collected through interviews, and analyzed qualitatively descriptively. The result of the research shows that according to the perception of Islamic religious figure on the island of Ambon, the dominant form of domestic violence in society is physical violence which is often done by husband, or psychic violence done by wife to husband. Domestic violence perpetrators dominated by husbands or parents. While the vulnerable to become victims of domestic violence is the wife and children. It is relevant to the theory of power relations, nature theory, nurture theory and patriarchal ideology that is still dominant in society.