Long-distance
marriage is believed to have led to
high divorce rates in Blitar.
recent data
suggests that separation mostly affects
women
who work as
migrant workers and their unemployed
husbands.
The Blitar
Religious Court had received nearly 2,000 divorce applications this year alone as of April,
most of
which were filed by women.
According to the court’s spokesperson
of
the total 1,839
cases filed, 1,309 were filed by the wives,
while the remaining were
filed by the husbands.
Of
the cases filed
by the wives, 756 had been ruled on.
“Thus we still have 553 cases left,”
The data also suggests that
75 percent
of the women who filed for divorce this year had worked as migrant workers.
Most of the remaining cases
also involved couples who work overseas.
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