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TEMPO.CO,
Djakarta– TheNational Family unit Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN) W Java continues to push down the number of child marriage prevalent in West Java.

BKKBN W Java official Ida Indrawati said that the average Westward Javan woman go married at the historic period of 18.05 years. The figure is way below the minimum age for marriage to meets the rights to reproductive wellness.

“Nosotros desire to improve it. Because to run across [the rights to] women’due south reproductive health, minimum marriage age for women is 21,” Ida said on Wed in Bandung.

According to Ida, it is difficult to lower the rate of child wedlock. She said that child wedlock is not sectional to rural areas. “Child marriage is also common in urban areas. Culture plays a significant part in kid spousal relationship,” he said.

Ida said that teenagers make upwardly 26 percentage of total W Java population. “The full teenagers in West Coffee is roughly 26 percent of [the region’s] total population of 46.7 million. They are quite a lot of them,” he said.

Research of Environs and Self Contained (RESIC) director Neng Hannah Hakim said that Indonesia ranks second in rates of child wedlock after Cambodia. Some ii.3 pct of vii million Indonesian women under the historic period of 15 have married.

As for Due west Java, three regions are on top of the nautical chart of rates of child marriage: Indramayu, Karawang and Garut. “Also Subang,” she said.

“One of the reason is economy. Parents who are having economical difficulty adopt to let their young daughters to get married to lower the burden. For others, women are seen as properties, such as in Indramayu and Subang. People are taking pride in existence able to improve their economy past marrying their daughters with wealthy men,” she said.

AMINUDIN A.S.