Proceedings of the 4th Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Science 2022 (BIS-HSS 2022)

Motives, Messages, and Media in the Process of Child Marriage in Madura

Authors
Netty Dyah Kurniasari1, 2, *, Emy Susanti3, Yuyun Wahyu Izzati Surya4
1Doctoral Student of Social Sciences, Airlangga University, 60285, Surabaya, Indonesia
2Communication Department, Trunojoyo University of Madura, Bangkalan, Indonesia
3Department of Sociology, Airlangga University, Surabaya, 60286, Indonesia
4Department of Communication Science, Airlangga University, Surabaya, 60286, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: netty.dk@trunojoyo.ac.id
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Netty Dyah Kurniasari
Available Online 10 October 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-118-0_164How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Message; Media; Child Marriage
Abstract

Indonesia is the second highest after ASEAN where the child marriage rate is high after Cambodia. Even more illuminated, the number of child marriages in Indonesia ranks second in the Southeast Asian region. About 2 million of Indonesia's 7.3 women under the age of 15 are married and out of school. That number is expected to rise to 3 million people by 2030. It is estimated that one in five girls in Indonesia marry before they reach 18 years old. The formulation of the problem of this study is how the motives, messages and media used by parents and society to persuade adolescents to be willing to marry early. The purpose of this study is to explore what motives, messages and media are used by parents and the community. The research methods used are observation and interviews. The subjects of the study were early marriage practitioners, parents and society. Research location in Madura. The results showed that the motive for early marriage was mostly due to economic and cultural motives. Media used by means of direct communication. The message conveyed includes good intentions (wanting to marry) should not be rejected, to maintain the honor of a woman better when the woman is immediately married, the person who gets married (household) becomes a more independent person. Getting married is a good intention so the good thing has to be moved.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Science 2022 (BIS-HSS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
10 October 2023
ISBN
978-2-38476-118-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-118-0_164How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2024 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Emy Susanti
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