Prameswari, Zendy Wulan Ayu Widhi

This article focuses on the minimum age requirement in the Indonesian Marriage Act, which enables child marriage and is to come under judicial review for the second time to evaluate its constitutionality. The authors state that the broad wording of international human rights law instruments make it difficult to eradicate child marriage as it is up to each individual state to construe the general provisions to apply to child marriage, which many have not.