Indonesia’s Problem with Child Marriage
For a 14-year-old girl named Susi in a rural Indonesian village, when the sun arose on a recent day, she faced a grim change in her life. At 7 am, she was to be married to Doni, a 15-year-old from the next village. While she likes him, they had only recently started dating and gossip was spreading fast.
The gossip quickly spread until the village’s leade…
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