A video showing a long line of other people outside in a devout courthouse in Thetorang district of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, made headlines this week, and some speculated that those who queued were married couples who planned to register for divorce. . Training
A court clerk then showed the rumors to the local media, saying other people outside the building were waiting for divorce.
“In total, there were 592 divorce cases in August. There is still the possibility that the numbers will increase,” the employee on Monday told the local newspaper Kompas.
The Soreang Religious Court noticed a high divorce rate in Bandung after the first hit of the coronavirus pandemic. So many programs continued to arrive that the court had to close its record for two weeks in May.
CNN Indonesia reported that in June, 1,012 divorce programs were filed with the Soreang Religious Court, more than the average of 700 to 800 cases that the court handles according to the month.
Meanwhile, bandung’s devout court can prosecute up to 246 divorces a day, the news reported Detik.com.
A wave of divorce has also been observed in the regions.
Semarang Religious Court in Central Java recorded a threefold increase in divorce during the coronavirus. At least 100 people file for divorce every day and most of them are women.
“Applications went from 98 in May to 291 to mid-June,” Semarang Court Vice President Muhammad Camuda said CNN Indonesia.
Families in several other parts of the country were also affected by the pandemic, which lit more than 160,000 others and killed some 7,000 people as of Wednesday, August 26.
Buang Yusuf, head of the devout Serang court in Banten province, told local media that many Indonesian families suffered monetary upheaval during the pandemic, which is one of the main reasons for divorce.
“About 1,600 divorce cases were processed in Serang. There’s probably going to be an increase this year. Most of these families are wasting sources of income and disputes between married couples are more frequent,” Yusuf told Fajar Indonesia.
The head of Indonesia’s Family and Population Planning Agency, Hasto Wardoyo, agreed with the assessment and said economic hardship and the circle of family disputes have intensified since the coronavirus outbreak.
“Almost 28% of divorce cases come from economic problems, more than 50% are caused by long-term disputes. The pandemic has exacerbated monetary problems, provoking disputes between married couples,” Rakyat Jogja told Kedaulatan.