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This picture taken on February 9, 2019 shows Nurlina, 19, who got married in 2017, holding her daughter in the village of Galung Lombok in West Sulawesi. - Child marriage has long been common in traditional communities from the Indonesian archipelago to India, Pakistan and Vietnam, but numbers had been decreasing as charities made inroads by encouraging access to education and women's health services. (Photo by YUSUF WAHIL / AFP) / TO GO WITH Indonesia-India-Vietnam-children-health-virus-family,FEATURE by Haeril Halim, Aishwarya Kumar and Tran Thi Minh Ha

Virus despair forces girls across Asia into child marriage
PEKANBARU: Indonesian President Joko Widodo meets children while inspecting the damages from the ongoing forest fires in Pekanbaru. — AFP

Indonesia raises the minimum age for brides to end child marriage
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