ABSTRAK
Latar belakang praktik poligami yang dilakukan saat ini berbeda dengan praktik yang dilakukan Nabi Muhammad Saw. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat fenomena pertimbangan poligami dalam novel Mahar Jingga. Dalam tokoh dan penokohan novel ini memiliki keunikan yang mempengaruhi pertimbangan tokoh Nizam dalam pengambilan keputusan. Selain itu, dalam penelitian ini terdapat proses pengambilan keputusan tokoh melalui faktor-faktor pengambilan keputusan, motif tokoh berpoligami dan membatalkannya, pertimbangan pro dan kontra poligami serta tahap-tahapnya. Hasil dari penelitian ini membuktikan bahwa poligami sangat sulit dilakukan bagi tokoh Nizam. Hal itu terjadi karena dalam berpoligami terdapat pertimbangan dan syarat yang sulit bagi tokoh Nizam sehingga ia memutuskan untuk membatalkan niatnya berpoligami.

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ABSTRACT
The background of polygamy practice today has been difference with The Prophet Muhammad rsquo s. This research aims to look at the phenomenon of polygamy consideration through a novel entitled Mahar Jingga. The characterizations of the characters have their own uniqueness that influence Nizam in making decision. In addition, there rsquo s also saw the process of decision making through the factors of decision making, the motive behind Nizam doing polygamy and cancel it, pros and cons of polygamy consideration, and also the stages of decision making which have been doing by Nizam in this research. The result of this resource is to prove the readers that polygamy is a hard thing to do for Nizam. It happened because polygamy has a lot thing to be considered and a difficult condition to do, so that it made Nizam to decide to abandoned his intention to polygamy.