https://ejournal.iain-manado.ac.id/index.php/KIJMS/issue/feed 2025-09-29T04:08:21+00:00 Ahmad Rajafi [email protected] Open Journal Systems <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://scholar.google.co.id/citations?user=dFE1t4kAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao">Nasruddin Yusuf</a>Kawanua International Journal of Multicultural Studies is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published twice yearly by the State Islamic Institute of Manado (IAIN) in Indonesia. This journal focuses on conducting an in-depth analysis of multicultural and pluralism issues, primarily focusing on the experiences and challenges of minorities globally. It aims to provide extensive and profound insights into such issues through a multi-disciplinary academic approach across Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Legal Studies, Economics, Education, and Islamic Studies.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Specifically, the journal's scope encompasses diverse topics such as investigating the role of secular law and Islamic law in protecting minority rights, assessing the socioeconomic impacts of globalization on minority groups, examining the potential of Islamic economics and education in an inclusive frame, exploring the cultural identities and spiritual traditions of minorities within global Islamic societies, analyzing issues faced by minorities like social integration, discrimination and access to public resources, documenting advocacy movements for minority rights at all levels, studying the representation of minorities in global media and culture, and undertaking comparative analysis of minority experiences across different regional contexts.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Kawanua International Journal of Multicultural Studies, with registered numbers ISSN <a href="https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2797-359X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2797-5460</a> (Print) and ISSN <a href="https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2797-359X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2797-359X</a> (Online), the journal invites academicians and researchers from relevant backgrounds worldwide to advance discourses on contemporary challenges related to multiculturalism and pluralism, with an emphasis on highlighting minority perspectives. The rigorous double-blind peer review process ensures the quality of publications that feature in Kawanua International Journal of Multicultural Studies biannually in June and December.</p> https://ejournal.iain-manado.ac.id/index.php/KIJMS/article/view/1336 2025-09-29T04:08:21+00:00 Firmansyah Pratama Alim [email protected] Emma Maripah [email protected] Abdul Fajri Kolopita [email protected]

<p>Divorce produces significant impacts on women and children as minority groups within patriarchal structures, particularly within Indonesia's plural legal system that integrates Islamic law, national law, and social practices. This research aims to analyze legal protection mechanisms for women and children as minority groups post-divorce in the Muslim community of Manado City, identify structural patriarchal factors that hinder the fulfillment of rights, analyze the intersectionality of oppression within the plural legal system, and evaluate the effectiveness of existing protection mechanisms. Using a descriptive qualitative approach, this empirical juridical research integrates a framework for minority studies and structural patriarchal analysis. Primary data were obtained from 106 talaq divorce cases at Manado Religious Court in 2021, focusing on 15 reconvention cases and 46 complaint cases at the UPTD for Women and Child Protection. Data collection through document study, observation, and in-depth interviews was analyzed using thematic analysis. As many as 85.8% of cases were decided in absentia without the wife's presence, reflecting systemic marginalization. Hindering factors include limited legal knowledge, economic dependency, masculinity construction that avoids responsibility, and institutional monitoring vacuums. The reconvention mechanism shows 66.7% success, but is limited by unequal accessibility. Legal protection for women and children requires systemic transformation, integrating minority rights perspectives through strengthening integrated databases, rights-based legal aid, Family Court Monitoring Units, and intersectionality-based capacity building for law enforcement.</p>

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