<![CDATA[Early marriage remains a serious challenge in developing countries, including Indonesia. Although Law No. 1 of 1974 has been amended to Law No. 16 of 2019 which sets the minimum marriage age at 19 years for both men and women as part of the government’s efforts to safeguard children’s rights and ensure their psychological, physical, and economic readiness to start a family, Nevertheless, early marriage continues to occur, often accompanied by requests for marriage dispensations filed with the Religious Court. Therefore, the Sukabumi City Government, through the Office of Population Control, Family Planning, Women’s Empowerment, and Child Protection (DP2KBP3A), has designated the Planned Generation (GenRe) Program as the primary instrument in its efforts to prevent early marriage. This study aims to analyze the impact of governance capacity building on the reduction of early marriage. The study employs a quantitative approach using purposive sampling of 50 employees from DP2KBP3A and 50 adolescents residing in Sukabumi City who have received information and education regarding early marriage. Data were collected through questionnaires and analyzed using simple linear regression with IBM SPSS. The research results show that governance capacity building does not have a significant effect on reducing early marriage, as indicated by a significance value of 0.605 (>0.05), a t-value of 0.520, and a coefficient of determination (R-squared) of 0.006. These findings indicate that governance capacity building contributes only 0.6% to the reduction in early marriage, while 99.4% is influenced by other factors. ]]>
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