REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Minister of Women Empowerment and Children Protection Yohana Yembise planned to discuss the proposal to raise age limit for women marriage from 16 yo into 18 yo. 

She claimed for having a Whatsapp discussion with tge Minister of Religious Affairs Lukman Hakim Saifuddin. "He (Lukman) really supports to raise it from 16 yo to 18 yo for women. So I will hold a meeting with him in the near future," she said in Jakarta on Tuesday (May 2). 

According to Yohana, many people agreed with the idea. She said to coordinate with Ministry of Religious Affairs for preparing the regulation.  

As information, based on article 7 verse 1 of Law No. 1 in 1974 on Marriage, age limit of marriage was 16 yo for women and 19 yo for men. Marriage would be stated as lawful when it conducted based on each religions and beliefs. 

Yohana said she had not decide any target regarding the revision. He said the effort to raise the age limit had an obstacle in Constitutional Court. But, it had been an interesting issue to all ministries and institutions. 

"I will invite the Ministry of Religious Affairs to come, maybe next week, to talk about this target. If the meeting finished,  we had be able to build commitment to realize it quickly," said Yohana. 

Previously, Women Health Foundation submitted the raise of age limit of women's marriage from 16 yo to 18 yo through case number 30/PUU-XII/2014. Children Rights Monitoring Foundation also made a same submission No. 74/PUU-XII/2014.

Constitutional Court rejected it in a material test trial No. 1 in 1974 about Marriage on Thursday, June 18, 2015. The verdict was read by the Head of Constitutional Court Arief Hidayat. It stated that the raise of age limit did not guarantee the decrease in number of divorce cases.

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