A COMPARATIVE LEGAL ANALYSIS OF CHILD MARRIAGE REGULATIONS BETWEEN INDONESIA AND INDIA BASED ON LAW NO 16 YEAR 2019 OF INDONESIA AND MARRIAGE ACT YEAR 2006 OF INDIA

Abstract

Child Marriage is a wide world issue which are still happening around the world. The negative impacts resulted by child marriage becoming the world’s attention and one of Unicef’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) which is to eliminate all harmful practice such as child, early and forced marriage. The Convention on the Rights of a Child defined child as someone below 18 years of age. However, every state has its own standard of a marriageable age.India is referred to as the home to a child brides. Whereas Indonesia is among 10 countries of the highest rates of child marriages. The establishment of law which are expected to be the social control or social tools might be the least the country can do in reducing child marriage, in this study is in regard to child marriage regulations. Therefore, this research will compare the Indonesian law No. 16 of 2019 concerning Marriage and Indian Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006. Henceforth, the comparison legal analysis are expected to be able to give an input to both Indonesian regulations and Indian regulations in regard to child marriage.