Marriage is a spiritual bond between a man and a woman as husband and wife in order to
establish a happy and everlasting family based on the belief in one god only. Recently,
polygamous marriage practice has been conducted without the consent of the existing wife or
wives. The permission of the polygamous marriage has always been granted by the religious
court. It is expected that the cases of polygamy will more favor the wives in terms of their right
protection. This research aimed to identify the reasons that a husband performed a marriage with
more than one wife with no wife or wives consent and what legal sanctions would be effective
for husband performing marriage with no consent from his wife or wives. This was a normative
legal research investigating positive legal norm concerning legal regulations referring for
division. Deductive reasoning was used in this research. Result of this research showed that in
polygamous marriage application proposal, wife’s consent was imperative or absolutely required.
The wife’s statement should be in written form or verbally spoken before the court. A wife refers
to a woman who has marriage or owns a husband. A husband is a man as the legal spouse of a
woman. Wives refer to a women marriage by a man under the consent of the religious court.