The Takengon Shari'a Court (lower court) had granted the respondent an irrevocable divorce (talak satu bain sughra). The appellant challenged this decision unsuccessfully, the Court finding that the lower court's judgment was accurate and correct. The Court also took the opportunity to note that while the appellant had denied the respondent's accusations, among which it had been proven that the appellant had never accused the respondent of having had an extra-marital affair with the head of the kampung (village), the cause of the quarrelling between the parties was not only evaluated based on the mistakes of one of the parties, and that the parties differences were indeed irreconcilable. Accordingly, a reason at law for divorce had been met.