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Balinese society is deeply influenced by patriarchy. In this male-dominated society, the rights of women have long been marginalized within the family as well as in customary affairs. Customarily, they are not involved in decision-making nor entitled to inheritance and their position is vulnerable with regard to marriage and divorce (Parker in From subjects to citizens: Balinese villagers in the Indonesian Nation-State. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, 2003; Rhoads in Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 31(2), 35–56, 2012; Creese in Indonesia and the Malay World, 44, 84–103, 2016). When they get married, they leave their original family to move into their husband’s extended family; however, in the new family, they remain an ‘outsider’.
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The Constitutional Court revokes the minimum age of married for women due to the fact that early marriage for women may have negative effects for them in terms of education and reproductive health. The court rules that the minimum age of married for women should be referred to Law on Child Protection No. 35/2014 which stipulates that a woman should no longer be considered a child when she is above 18 years old. Accordingly, the legitimate age for a woman to get married is 18 years old (see Constitutional Court Decision No. 22/PUU-XV/2017).
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Dewi, Y.P. (2020). Gendering Adat Law: Women’s Rights Activists in Balinese Customary Affairs. In: Goh, J.N., Bong, S.A., Kananatu, T. (eds) Gender and Sexuality Justice in Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8916-4_3
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