Ahmad Shoim, Surabaya – Indonesia is grappling with a shortage of religious marriage officiants, a pressing issue given the millions of wedding ceremonies held throughout the country ea

Jakarta – Marriage between people of different faiths has become more difficult, if not impossible, following a Supreme Court circular letter telling district courts to stop giving legi

Jakarta – The Supreme Court of Indonesia has ruled that lower courts cannot accept requests to register marriages between people with different religious beliefs.

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Sonny Dewi Judiasih and Deviana Yuanitasari, Bandung – Surrogate motherhood is prohibited in Indonesia but it exists nevertheless.

Antara, Jakarta – The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) has stated that prohibiting child marriage could help prevent stunting in children.

Danusha Jayawardana – An estimated 640 million girls and women in the world today were married in childhood, according to UNICEF.

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reports many countries are not making progress quickly enough to eradicate child marriage practices in the coming deca

Nur Rofiah – In Islam, clergymen interpret how marriage is done, sometimes allowing child brides. Clergywomen want substantive justice to stop the practice.

Could there be a time when no one in Bali is named Nyoman or Ketut?

Jakarta – It is hard to believe that in this day and age, the state is opposed to and obstructing any plans by two individuals of different faiths of getting married.

Nur Janti, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld ambiguous provisions in the Marriage Law that often hinder interfaith marriages and make it hard for couples of different

Legally speaking, the state will continue to only recognize marriages between a man and a woman of the same religion, after the Constitutional Court (MK) today rejected a judicial revie

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Wednesday ecstatically reacted to reports suggesting that Indonesia's post-marriage pregnancy rate had swelled.

Antara, Jakarta – Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Bintang Puspayoga affirmed that the government will tighten the dispensation for marriage applications to r

Antara, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia in the Bogor Regency, West Java, only officially register 45.21 percent of married couples in the regency as the rest are unregistered marriages,

Alfitria Nefi Pratiwi, Jakarta – Member of the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission VIII, Bukhori Yusuf, denounced the Tangerang District Court's ruling that legalized interfaith m

Antara, Jakarta – Hasto Wardoyo, Head of National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN), said in a statement issued on Wednesday that a pre-conception examination before marriag

Jakarta – West Java Deputy Governor Uu Ruzhanul Ulum is proposing that husbands be allowed to be polygamous in order to bring down the number of HIV/AIDS sufferers among housewives.

It's absolutely mind-blowing that no one in the entire world has come up with the solutions West Java Vice Governor Uu Ruzhanul Ulum championed to eradicate HIV and AIDS.

Irfan Kamil, Jakarta – The government has asked the Constitutional Court (MK) to reject a judicial review of law Number 1/1974 on Marriage.

Antara, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Cultural Affairs, Muhadjir Effendy, has called for collaboration among parties, particularly parents, to prevent child

Several busybodies who appear to take offense to the marriage between an interfaith couple in Surabaya have filed a lawsuit against a court decision to uphold their union.

Widya Michella, Jakarta – The secretary general of the country's peak Islamic body the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI), Amirsyah Tambunan, is asking the Surabaya District Court to annul

It wasn't exactly done in the name of love, but the Surabaya District Court has given a landmark legal stamp for interfaith marriage.

A story about an alleged marriage con has become a hot topic in Indonesia as it involves a woman who said she only discovered her husband is actually a woman 10 months after their weddi

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) on Monday announced that it will soon hold plenary sessions for the judicial review application that was lodged against the Marr

Abdul Kadir, Suharto, Makassar, S Sulawesi – The South Sulawesi provincial government has launched the "South Sulawesi Free From Drugs, Find Drug-Free Sons-and Daughters-in Law" Movemen

A woman in the Cianjur regency of West Java was reportedly banished from her village after her neighbors found out about her polyandrous marriage with two men.

Evi Eliyanah and Nurenzia Yannuar – Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world. Almost 90% of its population, around 236.5 million people, are Muslim.

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Dili Archdiocese in Timor-Leste has established an ecclesiastical court to handle marriage-related cases including annulments.

Laras Susanti – In mid-March, one of President Joko Widodo's female special staffers, Ayu Kartika Dewi, sparked controversy across Indonesia.

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body has come under fire from rights activists for declaring an interfaith marriage between a Catholic man and a Muslim woman in

Asep Firmansyah, Nabil Ihsan, Jakarta – Interfaith marriages could not be recognised and registered in local religious affairs offices, Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Zainut Tauhid S

Interfaith marriage is a grey, if controversial, area in legal and cultural terms in Indonesia.

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – An Indonesian diocese has banned Catholics from carrying out a traditional marriage-related ritual involving animal sacrifice, saying it is contrary to the Catholi

A Catholic man is on a mission for love and the recognition of interfaith marriage in Indonesia, after he filed a judicial review against a legal hurdle for marrying his Muslim girlfrie

Dina Afrianty – On 23 September, Indonesia's second largest Islam-based political party, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), sparked controversy by publicly recommending polygamy as par

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Antara, Jakarta – An anthropologist with the University of Indonesia (UI) Meutia Hatta Swasono on Wednesday expressed concern about polygamy and how it is solicited in current society t

A so-called spiritual guru in Bekasi who is in the spotlight for a cash multiplier scam is now facing additional charges related to underage marriage, as it has been revealed that his w

Shweta Sharma – A wedding planning company in Indonesia has come under fire for encouraging child marriages of girls as young as twelve years old, sparking outrage in the country.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesian police are investigating a wedding organiser that has promoted controversial child marriage as well as unregistered marriages.

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration may allow couples to hold their wedding receptions at multifunction halls starting next week.

Jakarta – The recent marriage of a 17-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has put a spotlight on the high prevalence of child marriages in the province.

Jakarta – Women are the main target of the government's premarital programs for future brides and grooms as the women are expected to be the homemakers that give birth and nurture the c

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has started to deliberate the controversial family resilience bill as lawmakers behind the bill, which is deemed by critics to inte

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' (DPR) Legislation Body (Baleg) has restarted deliberations on the Draft Law on Family Resilience which created a public controversy not long ago.

Though there have been tireless efforts to end child marriage in Indonesia, it appears that the country still has a long way to go to reach that ultimate goal.

Jakarta – The Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry has said female civil servants are prohibited from practicing polyandry – taking more than one husband – after minister Tja