#minimum age for marriage

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Child marriage prevention must involve multiple parties: minister

Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Bintang Puspayoga has highlighted that efforts to prevent child ...

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Endeavoring to prevent child marriages

Cases of child marriage are still common after nearly three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This can be seen from ...

BKKBN continues campaign against child marriage in East Java

The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) has continued to campaign against child marriage to prevent ...

24.49% of West Sumatra women married before 19: BPS

A national socioeconomic survey conducted in 2021 found that at least 24.49 percent of women in West Sumatra got ...

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Indonesia fights to prevent child marriage amid COVID-19 pandemic

Eni, a resident of West Nusa Tengga (NTB),  regretted that she allowed her 14-year-old daughter to marry last May ...

Early marriage deprives children access to quality education: minister

Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim has said that child marriage can deprive children of the opportunity to ...

Village SDGs support prevention of child marriage: minister

Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Minister Abdul Halim Iskandar has said that the Sustainable ...

Govt puts in place regulations, programs to prevent child marriages

Indonesia’s government has made numerous efforts and applied programs to prevent child marriages, Subandi ...

Child protection through minimum permissible marriageable age at 19

Director General of Social Rehabilitation of the Social Affairs Ministry Edi Suharto supported legalizing the revision ...

Child marriage rooted in gender discrimination: Malaysian representative

Permanent Representative of Malaysia to ASEAN Dato` Shariffah Norhana Syed Mustaffa said that child marriage was ...

Minister proposes minimum age of marriage at 20 years

Minister of Women`s Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Yohana Yembise has proposed a minimum age of marriage, ...

Campaigners ask government to support UN resolution to halt child marriage

Campaigners have joined the civil network of Koalisi 18+ to call the Indonesian government to support the United ...

UN experts call on countries to prevent child marriage

A group of United Nations human rights experts on Thursday, the first UN International Day on the Girl Child, urged ...