Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo is considering banning child marriages. He reportedly requested two ministries, the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Cultural Affairs and the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection, to prepare a presidential decree to amend the 1974 Marriage Law. Indonesia’s Marriage Law still limits marriage of girls to above the age of 16 although international law sets the age limit at 18 years. The law, however, allows parents to marry off children before the age of 16 with the permission of local religious courts, which is very easily obtained. Indonesia’s first child marriage report, Progress on Pause – published in 2016, found child marriage prevalence in Indonesia had reached a plateau after three decades of decreasing and was now consistent at the high rate of 17 per cent.