Social Practice of Early Marriage

The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) has stated that the birth rate among young women is still high at around 48 per 1,000 women aged 15-19 (IDHS 2012). "This achievement is still far from the 2015 MDG target (at that time), which is, around 30 per 1,000 young women of the same age," said the Deputy of Family Welfare and Family Development (KSPK). According to the analysis of child age marriage data, specifically in West Sumatra in 2012, the percentage of women ever married aged 20-24 years who were married before the age of 16 was 2.1% or equal to 4,470 children from 212,900 children in the same year (BPS and Unicef 2015 (p.58). The theme of child marriage is not something new discussed, as well as the risks that follow it. This phenomenon is still considered interesting, studied starting from the dynamics of demographic behavior such as the trend of changing goals of sexual activities that experience the transition from creation to recreational activities (Afrizal, on the talk show Musda XI PKBI West Sumatra, May 1, 2015). Until the population sociology study was interested in seeing the connection between sexual relations with systems and social structures, sexual relations with patterns of social interaction, sexual relations with norms and values and sexual relations in the context of institutions and institutions in society, and sexual relations related to various elements - elements of socio-cultural change.