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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sukesih was only 15 when she married in 1997. "I was a fourth grader. I had to stop school. It was because of the economic difficulties faced by my father, a pedicab driver with five children to feed, ...

In a step towards curbing child marriage, Indonesia's parliament has lifted the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19. Indonesia's parliament has revised marriage laws to lift the ...

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 ...

Indonesia has one of the world's highest numbers of child brides with one in four girls marrying before they turn 18 JAKARTA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament has revised the country's ...