UNICEF welcomes recent amendment of Indonesia’s Marriage Act
Jakarta, September 18, 2019 – UNICEF welcomes the recent amendment of Indonesia’s Marriage Act (1974) which has raised the age that girls can be married with parental permission from 16 to 19 years to be in line with the age for boys, which is also 19. The age of marriage for both women and men without parental permission is 21. “This is a major…