LEMBAR, Indonesia, Oct 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - F ifteen minutes into their first date, Indonesian teenager Helma Yani received a marriage proposal from a boy she had just met. He spirited ...

With proper sex education almost nonexistent, Indonesia's battle to reduce its high number of underage marriages resulting from unwanted teen pregnancies could be in vain, jeopardising a chance to ...

A viral video posted on TikTok shows a bride in Indonesia attending her wedding by herself, while the groom is forced to isolate after contracting COVID. The video, which was posted on the TikTok ...

Indonesian officials are vowing to end the controversial custom of bride kidnapping on the remote island of Sumba, after videos of women being abducted sparked a national debate about the practice.

An Indonesian groom's father married the bride after the groom disappeared on his wedding day, leaving the bride and her family humiliated. The groom, identified as Isra, was supposed to marry the ...

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After 10 years of resistance from conservative lawmakers, the Parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, recently passed a "sexual violence law." Activists worry that it won’t be enforced in remote areas, such ...

Here comes the bride — or maybe not. A woman in Sarawak looks set to miss her own wedding on Friday (April 19) because she was unable to catch her flight to Singapore. "I'm going to get married in ...

Jakarta: An Indonesian Muslim woman stopped her wedding after she found out her future husband was a woman. She learned about her partner's gender when her family gathered to read the Koran at the ...

Elders say the kidnapping is part of an elaborate courtship ritual requiring consent from both parents, but is now widely abused to justify early marriages LEMBAR, Indonesia, Oct 31 (Thomson Reuters ...

In Indonesia, 'bride kidnapping' tradition fuels child marriage despite new ban The government raised the marriage age for girls from 16 to 19 in September, but rights groups fear deep-rooted ...