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Indonesian firm in hot water over child marriage ads
Wedding planner faces prosecution for encouraging girls as young as 12 to get hitched
Women Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Bintang Puspayoga. (Photo: Women Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry)
A wedding planner has drawn widespread condemnation in Indonesia for promoting child marriage in an advertisement posted on its website and social media earlier this week.
The advertisement from Aisha Weddings, which specializes in organizing Muslim marriages, encouraged Muslim women aged 12-21 to get married as a form of “obedience to God.”
According to the agency, a Muslim girl’s job “is to serve a husband’s needs,” so she “must rely on a man as early as possible for the sake of a settled and happy family.”
Indonesia records sharp rise in child abuse cases
Children s protection agency attributes the increase to lax laws, Covid-19 lockdowns
Rita Pranawati of the Indonesian Child Protection Commission has urged the Indonesian government to review child protection laws. (Photo: Indonesian Child Protection Commission)
Violence and other rights abuses committed against children in Indonesia rose sharply last year with more than 6,000 recorded cases, according to a government agency set up to protect child rights.
At least 6,519 cases of violence and exploitation occurred during 2020, a 49 percent increase on the 4,369 recorded cases in 2019, the Indonesian Child Protection Commission said.
In its annual report, the commission said abuses committed against children included physical and psychological violence, sexual abuse and human trafficking.
Child marriage: Police act on KPAI report, probe wedding organizer 10th February 2021
Documentation - A child holds up a poster during the International Women’s Day commemoration rally in Makassar, South Sulawesi on March 8, 2020. The rally was held to raise awareness on child marriage and the need to stem its prevalence. (ANTARA FOTO/Arnas Padda/yu/aww) Jakarta (ANTARA) - The National Police’s Crime Unit has launched an investigation against a wedding organizer for promoting underage marriages, based on a report submitted by the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI). The issue regarding the wedding organizer, the KPAI has now made a report to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police, head of the Public Information Bureau of the Indonesian National Police s Public Relations Division, Police Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Schoolchildren take part in a peaceful rally to call for greater state protection on the rights of Indonesian children in Semarang, Central Java in this file photo from December 2015 - Tempo
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JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): President Joko Jokowi Widodo has signed off on a government regulation that provides guidelines on a mechanism for the chemical castration of convicted child rapists, after the House of Representative passed a law authorising the punishment in 2016.