Revisiting the New Indonesia’s Marriage Act 2019: will it be effective to prevent adolescent marriage

Autor: Dyah Anantalia Widyastari
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Insights in Public Health Journal, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 3-7 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2722-6603
DOI: 10.20884/1.iphj.2020.1.1.2657
Popis: Indonesia has a long history of adolescentmarriage and early childbearing. The religious, sociocultural and economic factors have been pointed out as the major drivers of earlymarriage whilethe 1974 Marriage Law was considered ‘weak’ in preventing the event. As the house of representative has passed the new bill in increasing the minimum legal age of marriage for female from 16 to 19 years old in 2019, a question posed whether the enactment of the new marriage law will be effective in preventing adolescentmarriage in Indonesia
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