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National 6 years ago

House agrees to raise minimum marriage age to 19

The House of Representatives has finally agreed to raise the minimum age for marriage for females from 16 years old to 19.

National 6 years ago

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When death lurks in disaster-hit areas, midwives come to save the day

Midwives played a pivotal role in saving mothers and their newborns when earthquakes and a tsunami hit Lombok and Sulawesi.

Opinion 6 years ago

Underage marriage in Indonesia may worsen

The age of menarche, when girls first start menstruating, is falling in Indonesia. My recently published paper shows this is a result of improved living conditions.

National 6 years ago

Child marriage still common, despite Indonesian court ban

A 2019 study conducted by the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice (AIPJ2) revealed that religious courts have approved an average of 12,000 exemptions every year.

Editorial 7 years ago

Who's afraid of 2019?

There’s no sugar coating the fact that 2018 has been a terrible year, an annus horribilis. Entering 2019, many expect that things could take a turn for the worse.

Opinion 7 years ago

Why women ulema reject patriarchy

The challenge of pluralism that Indonesia faces today is the strengthening of identity politics, where women are among the targets of patriarchal ideals hiding behind the robes of religion.

National 7 years ago

BREAKING: Court orders revision of minimum age for women to marry

The court granted a judicial review petition filed by three child bride survivors and their lawyer from the Indonesian Coalition to End Child Marriage (Koalisi 18+), challenging Article 7 the law, which sets the minimum age for women to marry at 16.

SE Asia 7 years ago

Mothers of the Missing: Anguished search for Vietnam's kidnapped brides

Vu Thi Dinh spent weeks scouring the rugged Vietnamese borderland near China after her teenage daughter vanished with her best friend, clutching a photo of the round-faced girls now feared sold as child brides.

Editorial 7 years ago

Ban child marriage

Must another child die as a result of violence in her purportedly safe home to wake us up?

National 7 years ago

Children have right to marry: Supreme Court

“Each individual has the right to get married. That’s a human right. We can’t prohibit them as long as they are not violating any laws,” Supreme Court justice and spokesman Suhadi told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.

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child-marriage

House agrees to raise minimum marriage age to 19

PREMIUM When death lurks in disaster-hit areas, midwives come to save the day

Underage marriage in Indonesia may worsen

Child marriage still common, despite Indonesian court ban

Who's afraid of 2019?

Why women ulema reject patriarchy

BREAKING: Court orders revision of minimum age for women to marry

Mothers of the Missing: Anguished search for Vietnam's kidnapped brides

Ban child marriage

Children have right to marry: Supreme Court

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When death lurks in disaster-hit areas, midwives come to save the day