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 ...

A government official who sparked outrage by marrying a child bride could be sacked after divorcing her by text message four days into their marriage. Aceng Fikri, 40, chief of Garut district in West ...

JAKARTA - 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 towards curbing ...

Amid the current problems that seem to be competing tirelessly against one another, the issue of women, particularly child marriage, appears to sink even deeper. Kartini Day on Thursday, April 21 – a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Here comes the bride — or maybe not. A woman in Sarawak looks set to miss her own wedding on Friday (April 19) because she was unable to catch her flight to Singapore. "I'm going to get married in ...

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Indonesian officials are vowing to end the controversial custom of bride kidnapping on the remote island of Sumba, after videos of women being abducted sparked a national debate about the practice.

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 ...