Islamic Family Law Reform in Indonesia Through Supreme Court Circulars: A Maqashid Ash-Shari'ah Perspective

From 2012 to 2022, the Supreme Court has issued 10 (ten) Supreme Court Circular Letters (SEMA) results of the Chamber Plenary Session which have spawned 458 new legal principles. of all the new legal principles, there are 109 legal principles governing Islamic private law. It can be said that SEMA is another variation in efforts to reform Islamic family law in Indonesia. This paper aims to examine how the existence and efforts to reform Islamic law in Indonesia, how various methods of reforming Islamic law in building family law with the Maqashid Asy-Syari`ah perspective, and how the new legal rules governing divorce law in Islamic families in the 2012 SEMA – 2022 Maqashid Asy-Syari`ah perspective of contemporary scholars. This study uses a normative legal research method using the Statute Approach and the Conceptual Approach. The results of this study indicate that the new legal principles contained in the SEMA from 2012 to 2022 are integratively in accordance with the maqashid asy-shari`ah paradigm of contemporary scholars.