JEULAMEE ON ACEH PEOPLE’S MARRIAGE IN ISLAMIC LAW AND PHENOMENOLOGY PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Jeulamee was the nickname of dowry in Aceh, it was just that the term jeulamee had an exclusive meaning, that gold ‎is the only form of dowry that was traditionally recognized in Aceh.  Another uniqueness was that gold was ‎measured by the size of the mayam. One mayam alone was equivalent to 3. 3 grams of gold. Jeulamee was a hot issue that repeatedly stuck out along with the holding of marriages in the community. When ‎it was heard that a marriage was about to took placed, the opinion of the jeulamee would followed him. The ‎screams of the youth in Aceh, “hana peng hana inong” (no money, no wife) seemed to voiced a cynical criticism ‎that only men with the title of financial freedom could marry. This studied aims to explained and analyze the ‎concept of jeulamee in Acehnese marriage from the perspective of Islamic Law. The typed of researched used was sociological legal researched, with a phenomenological approached and the data ‎analysis was descriptive-qualitative. Data was collected by used interview and observation techniques. The ‎results showed that the obligation of gold as a marriage dowry in Peunaron sub-district did not conflict with ‎Islamic Law, this was evidenced by the absence of the opinion of the four madhhab scholars who oblige and ‎forbid it, there was even a hadith of the prophet Muhammad SAW that allowed his  companions to marry with a gold dowry. There were two arguments for the preservation of jeulamee, namely: first, materialistic idealist, that jeulamee was ‎a tradition that was created and had a good purpose, such as preventing divorce, motivating young people who ‎want to got married to worked hard, because wealth was a necessary provision to navigate life, and uplift and ‎glorify women; second, normative formalistic, that jeulamee was a law of agreement from the community ‎‎(becoming customary law) and did not deviate from the concept of dowry in Islam.