Indonesian Marriage Law Reform : The Way to Strengthen the Protection of Children's Rights against Child Marriage

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. So while Indonesia has participated in the formulation of a number of international human rights instruments, and is party to them, the age requirement in their marriage laws has still not been raised. The authors conclude with several points they want the court to consider, but since the article was written prior to the conclusion of the case the results are not included.