LEMBAR, Indonesia, Oct 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - F ifteen minutes into their first date, Indonesian teenager Helma Yani received a marriage proposal from a boy she had just met. He spirited ...

Indonesia’s parliament has raised the minimum age at which women can marry to 19, in a ruling which is expected to curb child marriage in the country. There was unanimous agreement on the revision to ...

Elders say the kidnapping is part of an elaborate courtship ritual requiring consent from both parents, but is now widely abused to justify early marriages LEMBAR, Indonesia, Oct 31 (Thomson Reuters ...

SUMENEP REGENCY, Indonesia: Bold makeup in hues of red and black lined their eyes, hair adorned with buds of jasmine, a bejewelled golden plate rested upon their foreheads, while more gold ...

JAKARTA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament has revised the country's marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19, a move welcomed by campaigners as a ...

This month, the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice 2 (AIPJ2) published data on child marriage in Indonesia in collaboration with a number of Indonesian government agencies. On the face of it, ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament has revised the country's marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19, a move welcomed by campaigners as a step toward ...

A bride has her headdress adjusted while taking part in a mass wedding organised by the city government as part of New Year's Eve celebrations in Jakarta JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament has ...

With proper sex education almost nonexistent, Indonesia's battle to reduce its high number of underage marriages resulting from unwanted teen pregnancies could be in vain, jeopardising a chance to ...

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