ABSTRACT
Legal praxeology can contribute to a better understanding of law in action in the domain of plural personal statuses and the contradictions such plurality can create with regard to the principle of equality of citizens before the law. The aim of this chapter is twofold: first, it investigates one specific instance of such tensions within the law - namely, interreligious marriage in Indonesia; second, it makes an epistemological point about the possibility of capturing and describing “law in action” in this domain. Regarding interreligious marriage in Indonesia, it is argued that the Constitutional Court of Indonesia’s 2023 ruling constitutes a perspicuous case, as it helps make sense of the diversity of judicial practices and interpretations in the life of Indonesia’s family law.
