Early marriage is the marriage of someone before the age of mental and physical readiness. Therefore, marriage should be done after adolescents reach adulthood, because unpreparedness for marriage will affect married life. Impacts such as the number of divorces, deaths of mothers and children due to the age of the mother who is still too young and does not have the strength to be physically and mentally ready so that it can endanger the lives of both will often be found. Based on the developments in society and the applicant to be able to make changes because it is considered to violate the rights of children in child protection, the Indonesian government then updated the Law on limiting the age of marriage in Law Number 16 of 2019. This article uses the approach method used in this writing is the statutory approach (statue approach) and uses the normative legal research method. Primary legal materials consist of laws and regulations related to the object of research, namely, Law Number 16 of 2019 concerning Amendments to Law Number 1 of 1974 concerning Marriage, Law Number 23 of 2002 concerning Child Protection, decision letter of the Constitutional Court Number 22 / PUU-XV / 2017 concerning approval of changes regarding marriage age limits and other laws and regulations related to this research.
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