Aisha’s weddings, child marriage and its impact … Page all

KOMPAS.com – The public has recently been talking about the invitation to marry young. One of the parties that made the invitation was Aisha Weddings.

Citizens also responded by criticizing the invitation to marry minors.

Aisha Wedding’s theme is even one trending topic on Twitter until Thursday (11/2/2021) in the afternoon.

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This topic has been discussed more than 3500 times.

Aisha be weddings trends one of the reasons is because the upload on the website states that a woman must be married at the age of 12-21 years and no more.

Several netizens highlighted the age range that seemed to promote child marriage.

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So what is the real impact of child marriage?

Homepage Unicef, child marriage is defined as the marriage of a girl or a boy before the age of 18 and refers to both formal marriages and informal marriages in which children under 18 live with a partner as if they were married.

The South Asia region is said to have the highest rate of child marriage in the world.

Where nearly 45 percent of all women ages 20-24 reported that they were married before age 18.

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And of these, almost one in five girls, 17 percent of whom were married before the age of 15.

Meanwhile, India is the country with the highest number of girl brides in the world.

Unicef said child marriage violates children’s rights and puts them at high risk of violence, exploitation and abuse.

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Impact of child marriage

AMONG PHOTOS / Aditya Pradana Putra Photo illustration: Stop Child Marriage Campaign.

Meanwhile, launching from the site UNFPAAs a consequence, child marriage is said to deny children the right to vote with full consent, without coercion or fear.

An additional consequence of this child marriage is that girl brides are more likely to become pregnant before their bodies become adults.

This increases the risk of death and morbidity for both the mother and the newborn.

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Furthermore, married children are less likely to contract sexually transmitted infections, because at this age they are generally not equipped with sufficient knowledge to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases.

At this age, children generally lack information related to pregnancy as well.

Girlfriends are also vulnerable to abuse because they are perceived as less capable of defending themselves and less capable of escaping violent relationships.

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Additionally, child marriage is also at risk of causing mental illness due to the experiences of violence they have experienced.

Girls who marry too young also tend to think that hitting the wife is justified compared to women who marry later in life.

A girl girlfriend also tends to drop out of school, this is what is feared will make it difficult for her to get out of poverty.

Furthermore, it is feared that the lack of education and empowerment will make them less likely to advocate for the well-being of their children later on.

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The APP Minister’s Response About Aisha’s Wedding

Dock. Public Relations of the Ministry of APP PPPA Minister Bintang Puspayoga speaking at the 7th Indonesian Women’s Award (API) 2020.

Previously, the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Bintang Puspayoga assessed that the promotion of child marriage carried out by Aisha Weddings had ignored the government’s call.

This is because the PPPA Ministry is currently actively promoting the Joint Movement to Prevent Child Marriage at the village level.

“The promotion of Aisha Weddings has violated and ignored the government in protecting and preventing children from becoming victims of violence and exploitation, as established in the Child Protection Law No. 17 of 2016,” said Bintang. Kompas.com, Wednesday (10/2/2021).

He added that the promotion could affect young people’s mindset that getting married is easy.

“Although marriage in Indonesia has been regulated in Marriage Law Number 16 of 2019, which states that marriage is allowed if the woman and the man are 19 years old,” he said.

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