"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 curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country."
What do you make of this news seen through the prism of your religious, spiritual, philosophical or ideological beliefs?
@fmfsaid "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 curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country."
What do you make of this news seen through the prism of your religious, spiritual, philosophical or ideological beliefs?
How will raising the legal age by three years from 16 curb child marriage?
@divegeestersaid How will raising the legal age by three years from 16 curb child marriage?
The law will empower local governments and community governments and family planning organisations and the police and the courts and hospitals and clinics and doctors and charities and schools and a range of non-governmental organizations to move against girls being married off at 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 and do so in their various capacities armed with an unequivocal Wait-Till-You're-19 law. It means that men seeking to gain control of girls of that age by marrying them will face legal consequences.
@fmfsaid The law will empower local governments and community governments and family planning organisations and the police and the courts and hospitals and clinics and doctors and charities and schools and a range of non-governmental organizations to move against girls being married off at 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 and do so in their various capacities armed with an unequivocal Wait-Till-You'r ...[text shortened]... that men seeking to gain control of girls of that age by marrying them will face legal consequences.
I understand that, but don't they face those same legal consequences with the 14 and 15 year olds currently? If not then isn't raising the legal age kind of moot?
@divegeestersaid I understand that, but don't they face those same legal consequences with the 14 and 15 year olds currently? If not then isn't raising the legal age kind of moot?
19 is a pretty clear developmental stage than say 15, but 14, 15, 16 were all a bit of a much of a muchness with the old law setting the age at 16.
Enforcing this law is certain to reduce the number of girls who get married when they are still, for all intents and purposes, children or pubescents. It won't eradicate child marriage.
Enforcing this law is certain to reduce the number of girls who get married when they are still, for all intents and purposes, children or pubescents. It won't eradicate child marriage.
@fmfsaid Enforcing this law is certain to reduce the number of girls who get married when they are still, for all intents and purposes, children or pubescents. It won't eradicate child marriage.
If it achieves that aim they it is definitely a good thing. I suppose it's a good thing anyway, although perhaps 18 would have been sufficient.
@divegeestersaid If it achieves that aim they it is definitely a good thing. I suppose it's a good thing anyway, although perhaps 18 would have been sufficient.
@fmfsaid "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 curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country."
What do you make of this news seen through the prism of your religious, spiritual, philosophical or ideological beliefs?
Sounds like someone in Indonesia's parliament has some common sense.
@fmfsaid "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 curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country."
What do you make of this news seen through the prism of your religious, spiritual, philosophical or ideological beliefs?
@fmfsaid "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 curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country."
What do you make of this news seen through the prism of your religious, spiritual, philosophical or ideological beliefs?
Indonesia was the only Muslim majority country in the world which was not converted at the point of a sword . It is good to hear . Maybe there is hope for Islam.
The minimum age at which women can marry
18 Sep '19 03:29
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