Peer-reviewed article
Revisiting the New Indonesia’s Marriage Act 2019: will it be effective to prevent adolescent marriage
Dyah Anantalia Widyastari ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This paper examines whether Indonesia's 2019 Marriage Act, which raised the minimum legal age of marriage for girls from 16 to 19 years old, will effectively prevent adolescent marriage. Indonesia has a long history of early marriage driven by religious, sociocultural, and economic factors. The paper questions the effectiveness of the new law in addressing this issue, given that the previous 1974 Marriage Law was considered ineffective.
Key points
- Indonesia has a long history of adolescent marriage and early childbearing
- Religious, sociocultural, and economic factors drive early marriage in Indonesia
- The 1974 Marriage Law was considered 'weak' in preventing adolescent marriage
- The 2019 Marriage Act increased the minimum legal age of marriage for females from 16 to 19 years
Limitations
The document is a title and abstract only, providing no data, analysis, or findings about whether the 2019 Act is actually effective. It only poses a research question without addressing it.
Abstract
Indonesia has a long history of adolescent marriage and early childbearing. The religious, sociocultural and economic factors have been pointed out as the major drivers of early marriage while the 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 adolescent marriage in Indonesia.