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The parties were married on 5 May 2013 and had their only child on 7 September 2013. The plaintiff, however, submitted that the parties had quarrelled regularly since they were married because:

1. the defendant only ever provided the plaintiff with IDR 100,000 per month, and since July 2014, no financial support at all, resulting in the plaintiff having to work, as well as request financial assistance from her parents to meet their domestic needs;
2. the defendant rarely worked, but instead prioritised spending time with his friends rather than the plaintiff and their child;
3. the defendant's parents would meddle in the parties' domestic affairs, and encourage the defendant to leave the plaintiff; and
4. the defendant had not been a good father figure for the parties' child, and had not been responsible for his family, failing to provide them with any love and affection.

Problems escalated in July 2014 when the plaintiff could no longer tolerate the defendant's behaviour. Following an argument, the defendant left the parties' rental property and returned to his parents' home. The parties had remained separate for four months, during which time the defendant had failed to provide the plaintiff and their child with any financial support. The plaintiff claimed that she had worked hard to resolve the parties' disputes, even seeking the assistance of the Marriage Preservation, Fostering and Counselling Body (Badan Penasehatan, Pembinaan dan Pelestarian Perkawinan), but problems remained the same.

Initial court-sanctioned mediation failed to make the parties reconcile, but when the defendant provided his verbal response to the plaintiff's allegations in court, the plaintiff agreed to withdraw her application for divorce.