Jakarta, May 26 -- Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Lestari Moerdijat has emphasized that efforts to prevent child marriage must continue to be enhanced to ensure the better growth and development of children.

"In a country that has cultural diversity, efforts to prevent child marriage must continue to be enhanced with support from all related parties," she said in a statement issued here on Monday.

Recently, a social media post on the marriage of a 15-year-old teenage girl and a 17-year-old teenage boy in Central Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, was under the spotlight.

As per UNICEF data from 2023, as many as 25.53 million women in Indonesia were married before turning 18.

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