Jakarta – The National Cops’s Crime Unit has released an examination versus a wedding organizer for promoting underage marriages, based upon a report submitted by the Indonesian Child Security Commission (KPAI).
” The issue concerning the wedding event organizer, the KPAI has now made a report to the Criminal Examination Unit of the Cops,” head of the general public Details Bureau of the Indonesian National Authorities’s Public Relations Department, Cops Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, stated in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Investigators are looking into alleged violations of the marital relationship law by the wedding organizer Aisha Weddings’ site aishaweddings.com, he notified.
” Naturally the National Police Criminal offense System will examine this issue, seeing how such issues that arise in this society can be dealt with completely,” he said.
Aisha Weddings had actually promoted a require marriages for those between the ages of 12 and 21 on its website. It also used ‘nikah siri’, or unregistered weddings and polygamous marital relationships, as part of its services.
After drawing demonstrations from users on social networks, the Aisha Weddings website is currently inaccessible, with the homepage showing a message mentioning it is under repair.
Underage marriages breach Law Number 16/2019 on Marital relationship which puts down 19 as the minimum age when couples can get married in the country.
Child marital relationship has been considered a type of child rights infraction that can prevent the fulfillment of children’s needs.
It can also have an impact on their health, consisting of the danger of maternal and infant death, according to the National Advancement Preparation Company.
In terms of education, females who are married before they turn 18 have 4 times lower possibilities of finishing their high school education, it has actually specified. (INE)
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