One in nine Indonesian women marries before the age of 18
Religious courts continue to allow grown men to marry girls
WHEN RASMINAH was 13 her parents forced her to abandon her education and get married to a man who was then 27. “I was heartbroken,” she says. “I would watch my friends leave for school every morning wishing that was my life.” When the marriage failed she was married again, aged 15, to a 40-year-old man.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Unlawfully wed”
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