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Indonesia Council Open Conference 2025
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Child Marriage in Indonesia: Problems of Law, Religion, and Culture

Individual Paper

Individual Paper

2:00 pm

08 July 2025

Forum 3 (Melbourne Connect)

Session 2: Childhood, Youth and Childlessness

One Conference streams

Marriage and family

Submission Description

The dilemma between getting married or not for pregnancies that occur in girls due to dating relationships or promiscuity has an impact on their future. The most common choice made by parents is to marry them off. Marriage is considered the best way to cover up disgrace and restore the family name. It is also considered a solution to avoid prosecution, fulfill religious doctrine, and customary law. The focus in this case is on the interests of the parents or family to protect their good name, not on the rights of the child. The act of marrying off children is not accompanied by protection and providing opportunities for children to organize their future, so children are forced to live like adults in building a marriage. Finally, most marriages cannot be maintained, and the number of divorces has increased due to disharmony, continuous quarrels, abandonment, infidelity, and domestic violence. 

Presenters

Presenters

Individual Paper Presenters

Putu Samawati Saleh - Law Faculty of Sriwijaya University