Determination of the strongest factor of divorce in Perlis by using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy process / Mohd Fazril Izhar Mohd Idris, Khairu Azlan Abd Aziz, Muhammad Farhan Mohd Kamarulzaman

Divorce is one of the most common problems in the world and Malaysia is also considered as one of the countries that have many divorce cases. By definition, divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body. Divorce is also categorized as one of the bad things as it would cause negative feelings and behavior to someone who experienced it. Furthermore, there are nine factors of divorce used in the study which are infidelity, emotional problem, drugs problem, sexual problem, communication problem, problem with in-law, married too young and job conflict. Hence, the strongest factor needs to be determined as a precaution to people who want to start a marriage and people who have already married. Hence, the best and suitable method to determine the strongest factor of divorces in Perlis is by using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process. The method was conducted by using questionnaires and interview session with six selected respondents from Perlis State Islamic Affairs and Malay Customs and Syariah Judiciary Department Perlis. After that, the respondents were asked to rate the pairwise comparisons by using Saaty Scale which is from one to nine. Then, all the surveys were collected and converted into triangular fuzzy number prior further analysis by using Microsoft Excel. The analysis shows that the strongest factor of divorces in Perlis is drugs problem with the normalized relative weight of 0.203 and Perlis residents need to be aware of the factors of divorce in Perlis and they can try to reduce the divorce cases in Perlis as well.