Social Impacts of Child Marriage in Grobogan Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia

Abstract

Background: The prevalence of child marriage in Indonesia has more than doubled in the last three decades
but is still one of the highest in the East Asia and Pacific region. In the Grobogan District in 2016 an
increase in the number of marriages at an early age in women was 36.5 percent. This study is a qualitativenaturalistic study. The main data source of this study is the results of Focus Group Discussions, interviews
and observations and also supported by secondary data in the form of previous research results. The reason
for early marriage is mostly due to the incidence of pregnancy outside marriage in adolescents. It is suspected
that there is a relationship between early marriage, low level of education and poverty. Religious education,
morals and strict control from parents, schools and communities must be done with a variety of strategies,
because most of the reasons for early marriage are getting pregnant first.