In­ter­faith mar­riages abroad: Civil re­gis­tra­tion, Art­icle 56 and the limits of fraus legis

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Evi Hari­anti and Jihan Shafa Sals­ab­ila write about in­ter­faith mar­riages sol­em­nised abroad, which the ab­stract de­scribes as rais­ing legal prob­lems at the in­ter­sec­tion of mar­riage law, pop­u­la­tion ad­min­is­tra­tion and private in­ter­na­tion­al law. The study ex­am­ines the au­thor­ity of the Pop­u­la­tion and Civil Re­gis­tra­tion Office (Dis­duk­ca­pil) to re­ceive re­ports of over­seas mar­riages and as­sesses the use of Art­icle 56 of the Mar­riage Law as a basis for ad­min­is­trat­ive re­cog­ni­tion. It also iden­ti­fies cir­cum­stances in which the de­lib­er­ate choice of a for­eign jur­is­dic­tion may amount to legal eva­sion or fraus legis.