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Issue of child marriage in Indonesia has always been a debate particularly since the rejection of a recent judicial review of the 1974 Marriage Law to raise a minimum marriageable age for girls by Constitutional Court. The judicial review was instigated by the association of women’s and youth organizations, Koalisi 18+. The rejection sparks off a debate, especially since a research conducted by UNICEF (2016) had been published, stating that Indonesia ranked seventh with the highest absolute numbers of child marriage. Issues raised by UNICEF are in line with what Koalisi 18+ has voiced. On one side, in addition to violating the Human Rights, child marriage can also bring a harmful loss such as a low rates of health and life expectancy for women and children. It even creates an intergenerational poverty (in Grijns & Horii, 2018). Yet, on the other side, Constitutional Court rejected it with considerations such as religious norms, social norms, as well as customs and traditions. Those debates then are analyzed through a semiotic analysis, a semiosis process by Danesi & Perron (1999). From the analysis, it can be seen that the debates basically originate from the difference between Koalisi 18+ and Constitutional Court in interpreting marriage and its minimum marriageable age. It concludes that marriage in Indonesia is complex and its complexity involve many aspects under a culture sphere such as legal aspect, religiosity, and social norms. Keywords—child marriage; minimum marriageable age; semiosis process; semiotic study

Debating A Minimum Marriageable Age for Girl in Indonesian Marriage: A Semiotic Study