memberi bantuan lahir batin

English translation: to provide financial and emotional support

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Indonesian term or phrase:memberi bantuan lahir batin
English translation:to provide financial and emotional support
Entered by: ErichEko ⟹⭐

22:01 Feb 2, 2012
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Indonesian term or phrase: memberi bantuan lahir batin
Istilah ini muncul dalam daftar hak dan kewajiban suami isteri yang ada di Kutipan Akta Nikah. (bisa lihat di http://www.me2d.net/2008/09/hak-dan-kewajiban-suami-istri.ht... Dari jawaban Kudoz yang lain, (http://www.proz.com/kudoz/indonesian_to_english/poetry_liter... diusulkan terjemahan physically and mentally, tetapi dalam konteks ini tidak akan cocok bilang "mental help"
David Andersen
Australia
Local time: 07:51
provide financial and emotional support
Explanation:

memberi bantuan lahir sudah terang benderang, yakni memberi bantuan fisik. Namun, dalam konteks menikah, bantuan fisik itu bukanlah berbentuk tenaga, melainkan uang sebagai sarana mendapatkan kenikmatan fisik (baju, makanan, rumah, dlsb.)

memberi bantuan batin lebih kepada dukungan secara kejiwaan, lebih khusus lagi secara perasaan, berupa empati, penghiburan dalam duka, ikut senang dalam suka, dst.

Ref: http://old.usccb.org/laity/marriage/samesexeng.shtml
It is fair to say that both the law and the population generally now view marriage, at least in the abstract ideal, as a partnership of equals with equal rights…founded upon shared intimacy and mutual financial and emotional support….
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ErichEko ⟹⭐
Indonesia
Local time: 04:51
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I decided to translate it "physical and emotional support". I appreciate your suggestion of support, which sounds better than "help" and it's excellent to use "emotional" for "batin"
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4 +1provide financial and emotional support
ErichEko ⟹⭐
3to devotely serve emotional, material, and physical needs
Wiyanto Suroso


  

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provide financial and emotional support


Explanation:

memberi bantuan lahir sudah terang benderang, yakni memberi bantuan fisik. Namun, dalam konteks menikah, bantuan fisik itu bukanlah berbentuk tenaga, melainkan uang sebagai sarana mendapatkan kenikmatan fisik (baju, makanan, rumah, dlsb.)

memberi bantuan batin lebih kepada dukungan secara kejiwaan, lebih khusus lagi secara perasaan, berupa empati, penghiburan dalam duka, ikut senang dalam suka, dst.

Ref: http://old.usccb.org/laity/marriage/samesexeng.shtml
It is fair to say that both the law and the population generally now view marriage, at least in the abstract ideal, as a partnership of equals with equal rights…founded upon shared intimacy and mutual financial and emotional support….

ErichEko ⟹⭐
Indonesia
Local time: 04:51
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Grading comment
I decided to translate it "physical and emotional support". I appreciate your suggestion of support, which sounds better than "help" and it's excellent to use "emotional" for "batin"

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to devotely serve emotional, material, and physical needs


Explanation:
Pada dasarnya, "memberi bantuan lahir batin" itu serupa dengan "memberi nafkah lahir batin" karena "nafkah" dalam hal ini merupakan "bantuan" yang diwajibkan oleh ketentuan agama. Tampaknya, Akta Nikah sekadar meragamkan kedua istilah.

Pada rujukan di bawah ini, kebutuhan untuk memberikan "bantuan lahir batin" mencakup semuanya secara lengkap, yaitu 'emotional, material, and physical needs', termasuk kebutuhan biologis suami-istri.

Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia:Divorce and Marriage Law, by Kate O'Shaughnessy

The court considers that the primary obligation of a wife to devotely serve her husband's emotional, material, and physical needs within the limits prescribed by Islamic law, ....

http://books.google.co.id/books?id=kNPGclJUQuIC&pg=PA115&lpg...

Wiyanto Suroso
Indonesia
Local time: 04:51
Native speaker of: Native in IndonesianIndonesian
PRO pts in category: 55
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