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This marriage is only carried out in front of a marriage officiant or religious expert by fulfilling Islamic law so that this marriage is not registered at the office authorized for it. [3] Marriage is valid if it meets the pillars and conditions of marriage. The pillars of marriage include the following: [5]
Most controversially, the new laws banned sex outside of marriage, prohibited cohabitation before marriage and criminalized insulting a sitting president, among other measures, The Jakarta Post ...
Saudi sex tourists are buying weeklong marriages to young women in Indonesia. It's an economic lifeline for villages. For the women, it's 'torture.'
Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously passed a long-awaited revision of the country's penal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside of marriage for citizens as well as foreigners, prohibits ...
Article 1 of the Law No. 1 of 1974 on Marriage (Indonesian: Undang-undang No. 1 Tahun 1994 Tentang Perkawinan) states that marriage is "a physical and spiritual bond between a man and a woman as husband and wife, having the purpose of establishing a happy and lasting family founded on the Belief in God Almighty". [12]
The 1974 Marriage Law sets the legal age of marriage in Indonesia without parental consent at 21 years old however, girls as young as 16 can marry with parental consent. [41] As of September 2019, an amendment was made to the National Marriage Act (1974) to raise the age of marriage for girls with parental consent to 19 years old. [39]
Indonesia is a major source, and to a much lesser extent, destination and transit country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Each of its 34 provinces is a source and destination of trafficking. Indonesian women and girls are subjected to sex trafficking, primarily in Malaysia, Taiwan, and the Middle East.
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