MEDIATION-BASED CONFLICT RESOLUTION: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE THEORY OF RELATIONSHIP MAINTENANCE TO THE RELIGIOUS COURT DECISIONANCE ANALISIS ON RELIGIOUS COURT DECISION NO. 0478/PDT.G/2023/PA.BI

Abstract

Humans as social beings are required to have relationships with other individuals. However, relationships that humans experience often cause conflict. The relationship between husband and wife in a marriage bond is an example of a relationship that often also experiences conflict. After a conflict occurs, there will be an effort to restore the relationship together initiated by one or more parties concerned. The presence of this research is because it coincides with the conflict experienced by a family which ended in being resolved at the Boyolali Religious Court in the form of Case Decision Number 0478 / Pdt.G / 2023 / PA.Bi. Before the court decision was finally determined, several processes of conflict resolution efforts had been carried out by means of mediation between the two parties. This study attempts to analyze the mediation process carried out by the parties based on Case Decision Number 0478 / Pdt.G / 2023 / PA.Bi reviewed with relationship maintenance theory. This study adopts a qualitative descriptive research method to describe the conditions related to conflicts that occur in families that result in divorce.This study was compiled by conducting a thorough and comprehensive literature review (library research) to identify the decision of the Boyolali Religious Court Number 0478/Pdt.G/2023/PA.Bi which will then be analyzed using relationship maintenance theory. The conclusions produced by this study are: based on the five theories of relationship maintenance (positivity, openness, assurance, task sharing, networking), almost all of them are only carried out by one party. So that the aim of improving the relationship between the plaintiff (Ratna) and the defendant (Budi) did not find a positive agreement that led to their harmonious relationship again. Finally, the conflict continued to the litigation path which depended on the decision of the judge based on the information and evidence presented during the trial process.