Sejarah pembentukan dan pembaruan hukum keluarga Islam di Indonesia tidak pernah bisa terlepas dari dialektika evolusi budaya hukum yang terjadi dari waktu ke waktu. Model utama dari penggerak evlousi tersebut ada pada semangat penyebar Islam yang menerapkan teori inkulturasi namun tereduksi dengan semangat akulturasi yang melahirkan arabisasi Islam. Pada fase akulturasi inilah terjadi stagnasi pembaruan hukum keluarga dan bahkan mazhab asy-syafi'iyyah menjadi pegangan utama dalam menerapkan hukum keluarga. Semangat pembaruan baru muncul kembali di era 50-an dengan melahirkan istilah Fiqh Indonesia dan Kewarisan Bilateral. Semangat ini berlanjut di era reformasi dengan lahirnya CLD-KHI sebagai pembanding KHI dan diharapkan menjadi UU Perkawinan yang baru. Namun gerakan tersebut kembali stagnan karena begitu mengakarnya hasil pembentukan hukum keluarga Islam berbasis akulturasi di Nusantara. Kata Kunci: Sejarah pembentukan, pembaruan, hukum keluarga Islam,                              nusantara The History of the Establishment and Improvement of the Islamic Family Law in the Archipelago of Indonesia The history of the establishment and improvement of the Islamic family law in Indonesia can never be separated from law cultural evolution discourse that occurs from time after time. The first model of the evolution motor laid on the spirit of the Islam spreaders who applied inculturation brought forth the Arabization of Islam. In the acculturation phase, the improvement of family law is paused and make the mazhab asy-syafiiyyah as the main base in family law enforcement. The call for improvement reemerged in the 1950s by introducing Indonesian Fiqh and bilateral inheritance. The course continued to the reform era noted by the introduction of CLD-KHI as a counter to KHI and expected to the new marriage regulation. However, the movement was halted again since acculturation has rooted in the development of Islamic family law. Keywords: the history of establishment, improvement, Islamic family law.

Historically, the rule of Islamic family law existed and has been practiced since the early arrival of Islam in the archipelago. This is indicated by the phenomenon of massive application of fiqh madzhab asy-syafi’iyyah in the colonialization era.. After the day of Independence, the efforts to established Islamic family law through political institutions has begun, starting from the old order era until the reform era. The reform movement grew stronger mainly after CLD-KHI was echoed to make KHI ( Collection of Islamic Law) a new Marriage Act. Unfortunately, this movement received a negative response from a number of Islamic organizations; so the plan was canceled by the Government. Nevertheless, the struggles between liberal and conservative-fundamentalist Islamic thought still continue to this day.

The controversy about the concept of nafkah in Islam seems never ending, especially the strengthened of Islamic trans-national understanding in society which emphasizes the importance of Qur'an but with the scriptualistic model and denying other elements that can be formulated as a means to reinterpret verses of God, such as the verse of nafkah living that is used as a justification of men's power over the women. So that, examine the harmony of revelation and local culture in the context of the verse about nafkah with the approach of Islamic Nusantara is important to be explained in order to be create a responsive understanding and shalih li kulli zamân wa makân. The direction of that reinterpretation formulates the concept of economic agreement in a family, where the reading of the verse must be related to the early history of Islam which treats women in a minor but with positive progress toward the major treatment, so that women (wives) who were previously prohibited in earning of nafkah could be transformed to participate in constructing the economic family or even as the main provider of nafkah in a family.