Advocacy Wife Becomes Victim of Domestic Violence (Between the Indonesian Criminal Law and Islamic Law)

Abstract

Concepts advocacy of domestic violence victims are basically set in the Indonesian criminal law khsususnya Act No. 23 of 2004 on the Elimination of Domestic Violence stairs. Yet the methods and goals of advocacy for victims of domestic violence in the application in court remains to be investigated. Similarly, the judge imposed criminal sanctions for domestic violence defendants. In this research will be carried out comparative studies with Islamic law, both the victim advocacy, criminal sanctions for perpetrators and victims advocacy goals of domestic violence so as to know the differences and similarities in specific.

Keywords: advocacy of victims of domestic violence, the Indonesian criminal law, Islamic law.