Aim

Sakina: Journal of Family Studies provides a scholarly platform for critical and interdisciplinary engagement with issues at the intersection of family law, religion, gender, and culture, with particular emphasis on Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

The journal aims to advance rigorous academic inquiry into the dynamic role of family law, particularly Islamic family law, as it interacts with local traditions, state regulations, global legal frameworks, and transnational currents of thought.

It promotes theoretical, normative, comparative, empirical, and interdisciplinary research examining the application and development of Islamic family law within contemporary legal and social contexts.

Scope

Sakina: Journal of Family Studies welcomes scholarly contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Marriage and Divorce Law: Legal norms, judicial practices, and contemporary challenges in regulating marital relationships, particularly the application of Islamic law in formal and informal settings.
• Inheritance, Grants, Wills, and Waqf: Analytical and comparative studies of succession, property distribution, grants, wills, and Islamic endowments within Islamic law and Indonesia’s pluralistic legal system.
• Child Protection and Adoption Law: Guardianship, adoption, child welfare, and children’s rights within pluralistic societies, including the relationship between Islamic family law, statutory law, and local traditions.
• Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mediation, reconciliation, arbitration, and other non-litigation mechanisms for resolving family disputes, particularly where customary, Islamic, and state legal systems intersect.
• Domestic Violence and Victim Protection: Legal, institutional, and policy approaches to protecting vulnerable family members, improving access to justice, and integrating Islamic legal principles with modern protective legislation.
• Gender and Equality in Family Law: The engagement of Islamic law and family law frameworks with contemporary gender discourse, equality, human rights, marriage, divorce, inheritance, and family relations.
• Comparative and Transnational Family Law: The relationship between family law, globalization, migration, transnational legal developments, and postcolonial legacies, with particular attention to Indonesia and the wider Muslim world.

The journal welcomes diverse research methodologies, including normative legal research, comparative legal studies, socio-legal research, field-based ethnography, sociology of law, and other interdisciplinary approaches.