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    Child marriage prevalence in Indonesia remains high despite goals to eliminate the practice by 2030. Data from 2016 surveys showed that girls in rural areas, from poorer households, and whose household head had low education, were much more likely to marry young. Although the legal marriage age is 21, dispensation allows marriage at earlier ages, and over 21% of girls were married or in union before 18.

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    Child marriage prevalence in Indonesia remains high despite goals to eliminate the practice by 2030. Data from 2016 surveys showed that girls in rural areas, from poorer households, and whose household head had low education, were much more likely to marry young. Although the legal marriage age is 21, dispensation allows marriage at earlier ages, and over 21% of girls were married or in union before 18.

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    CHILD MARRIAGE IN INDONESIA

    Sustainable Development Goal 5 - Target 5.3 - aims to eliminate all harmful practices,
    including child marriage by 2030. Even though child marriage prevalence in Indonesia remains
    high, the Government of Indonesia is committed to achieving this target.
    All data is based on the 2016 annual Socio-Economic Survey (SUSENAS), which monitors child marriage trends as well as associated factors.

    RISK FACTORS

    HOUSEHOLDS WITH RURAL AREAS LOW HOUSEHOLD


    LOWER EXPENDITURE Girls in rural areas are three times EDUCATION
    ACHIEVING GENDER Girls from households with the more likely to marry before age 18 Girls are three times less likely
    lowest levels of expenditure are almost compared to girls in urban areas. to marry before age 18 if their
    EQUALITY AND five times more likely to be married household head has completed
    EMPOWERING ALL before age 18 than girls from households university compared to primary school.
    with the highest levels of expenditure.
    WOMEN AND GIRLS
    GEOGRAPHICAL SPREAD OF CHILD MARRIAGE PREVALENCE UNDER AGE 18
    5 0-6%
    7-12%
    5 17 13-18%
    6 19+%
    15 13
    10 17 15 12
    6
    17 16
    20 16 18
    16
    14 22
    15 15 15
    9 12
    AROUND 1 IN 9 GIRLS ARE 10
    MARRIED BEFORE AGE 18 5
    Approximately 375 8 12
    12
    girls marry every day 12 10 15
    5
    10

    Child marriage is found in geographical pockets throughout Indonesia – Rates vary widely across the country
    and by level of government (province, district and sub-district). Provincial averages can mask districts
    where prevalence is much higher than the national or provincial average.

    LEGAL FRAMEWORK
    0.5% OF GIRLS 21 WITH ABOVE ABOVE
    WITH DISPENSATION

    16 19
    PARENTAL
    ARE MARRIED OR IN LEGAL AGE CONSENT
    (EXEMPTION) REQUEST

    UNION BEFORE AGE 15 OF MARRIAGE NO MINIMUM AGE


    While the legal age of marriage is 21 according to the 1974 Marriage Law, marriage dispensation allows for children to get married at an earlier age.

    IMPACT
    INDONESIA GLOBALLY

    Complications during pregnancy Babies born to mothers under age


    and childbirth are the second 20 are 1.5 times more likely to die
    leading cause of death during the first 28 days than babies
    for girls between ages 15 and 19.* born to mothers in their 20s or 30s.*
    EDUCATIONAL ECONOMIC *United Nations Children’s Fund, The State
    of the World’s Children 2016, New York, 2016.
    ATTAINMENT GROWTH
    Girls who marry before age 18 are Child marriage is estimated to cost
    at least four times less likely economies at least 1.7% of GDP. Married girls are more vulnerable to domestic violence.**
    to complete secondary education This figure is based on the loss of cash flow that could have been **Kidman, Rachel, ‘Child marriage and intimate partner violence: a comparative study of 34 countries’, International Journal of Epidemiology,
    12 October 2016, pp. 1-14.
    or equivalent. generated if married girls (aged 15-19 years) delayed marriage
    until age 20, over the 2014-2050 period.

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