Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia

Gavin W. Jones is Professor and the Research Leader for the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. He most recently co-edited Ultra-low Fertility in Pacific Asia: Trends, Causes and Policy Issues, also published by Routledge.Terence H. Hull holds joint appointments with the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, at the Australian National University, where he is J.C. Caldwell chair. Maznah Mohamad is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the Asia Research Institute and the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her previous publications include Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia and The Malay Handloom Weavers.

• Part I. Overview 1. Marriage Trends in Insular Southeast Asia: Their Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimension 2. Statistical Indices of Marriage Patterns in Insular Southeast Asia 3. Teenage Marriage Trends and Issues in Insular Southeast Asia Part II. Indonesia 4. Regional Differences in Marriage Patterns in Indonesia in the Twenty-First Century 5. Politics and Marriage among Islamic Activists In Indonesia 6. Underage Marriage and Poverty in West Java, Indonesia 7. Delayed Marriage among Lower Socio-Economic Groups in an Indonesia Industrial City 8. Bugis Marriage: State Laws, Islam and Local Practice 9. Dowry Systems and Extended Family Networks: A Case Study In Manggarai and Nagekeo, Flores, Indonesia Part III. Malaysia 10. Understanding Marriage and Divorce Trends In Peninsular Malaysia 11. Marriage among the ‘Urbanized Rural Poor: Return Migrants In Northwest Kelantan 12. Gender Battles and the Syariah: Translating Islamic Marital Law into Everyday Practice in Malaysia 13. International Marriages in Malaysia: Issues arising from State Policies and Processes Part IV. Philippines And Singapore 14. Cohabitation and Poverty in the Philippines 15. The State Of Marriage In Singapore

"The book combines introductory quantitative analyses of trends in marriage and teenage marriage, which give a broad picture of partnership patterns in the region, with country-specific field studies of smaller samples in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. These studies bring a deeper understanding of marriage patterns from various points, including those of statistics, politics, poverty, culture, policy, law, migration and urbanisation. "- Aris Ananta, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore