| Sumario: | The writers explore trends in marital dissolution in Indonesia. They discuss the effect of educational expansion, delayed marriage, urbanization, increasing employment before marriage, legislative change, and greater free choice in marriage on the decline in marital disruption. In addition, they contend that trends such as delayed marriage and educational expansion explain roughly one-third of the drop in marital dissolution and outline how factors linked to marital disruption are shifting in importance. Furthermore, they argue that the shifting forces governing marital formation and dissolution in Indonesia have modified the connections between the conjugal couple, broader kinship systems, and modes of economic support such that traditional patterns sustaining high levels of marital instability are no longer in effect.
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