The Numbers 700 million Women around the world married as girls; a third married before 15 (UNICEF); 8 th Highest Rank in the World - Indonesia - child marriages, 2 nd rank in the ASEAN regions; 1 in 4 girls are married before 18 (UNICEF); 1,348,886 girls married before 18 in 2012; UNICEF estimates 300,000 girls marry before age of 16 per-year; 1% of all under-age marriage seek dispensation through the court (AIPJ2 Study on Case Decision Analysis, 2018); 2 nd leading cause of death for girls between age 15 and 19 is complications during child-birth (SUSENAS 2015); 1.7% loss of GDP due to child marriage (SUSENAS 2014).
Perkawinan anak merupakan salah satu tantangan dalam pembangunan sumber daya manusia . Hal ini dikarenakan perkawinan anak memiliki dampak yang multiaspek dan lintas generasi ; P erkawinan anak adalah bentuk kekerasan TERKOMPLIT karena melibatkan kerugian dan kerusakan fisik , seksual , mental dan sosio-ekonomi seorang anak
SPIDER’s WEB OF CHILD MARRIAGE
Current Social & Harmful Norms on Child Marriage Why-Educate : Parents are too poor to pay for the girl’s upbringing, and marriage means one less mouth to feed. Moreover, there are no decent schools in the neighborhood, and there are no jobs for women; Conciliation : Marriages are primarily an instrument to bring families closer together rather than to make spouses happy; Dowry : Parents have to pay higher dowries or accept lower bride prices for older girls. Potential grooms, or their families, prefer young brides; Law: There are no laws forbidding child marriage or, if there are, they are not enforced; no criminal law forbidding child marriage, in contrast criminal law prohibiting sexual relations between unmarried youths; Romeo & Juliet : Children themselves desire love and marriage (as a way out of a strict environment?) “Forced Marriage” is just a tradition : Child marriage is just a “custom”, a “tradition”, part of people’s “culture”; Conformity : All girls are getting married young; Born to be a Housewife : People, girls included, believe girls should be good wives and mothers, and their well-being and personal development is less important; Chastity : Parents want their daughters to be chaste, and there is a risk that girls who grow older loose their virginity outside marriage, because they might have love affairs or they might be harassed; Docility : Girls lack the capabilities to defend their own interests;
AIPJ2 Approaches: Working in Coalition to Strengthen the 3 Tracks
February 2020 : AIPJ2 mendukung Pemerintah Indonesia meluncurkan Strategi Nasional Pencegahan Perkawinan Anak (STRANAS PPA) yang bertujuan untuk mengurangi perkawinan anak hingga 6.94% pada tahun 2030