Through Da'wah, The West Sulawesi Provincial Government Will Press Early Childhood Marriage

Illustration of early marriage (ANTARA)

MAMUJU - The Provincial Government of West Sulawesi (West Sulawesi Provincial Government) and the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) of West Sulawesi Province work together to suppress early childhood marriage.

Regional Secretary (Sekda) of West Sulawesi Province Muhammad Idris, said the West Sulawesi Provincial Government and the West Sulawesi Ministry of Religion collaborated and collaborated to suppress early childhood marriage through the religious sector.

He said the West Sulawesi Provincial Government and the West Sulawesi Ministry of Religion were attended by a number of government agencies such as the West Sulawesi Provincial BKKBN, West Sulawesi BAZNAS and three representatives of Islamic boarding schools in the Mamuju Regency held stunting prevention meetings.

According to him, early childhood marriage in West Sulawesi requires special attention and treatment, because based on the results of the BPS West Sulawesi survey, the percentage of child marriages reached 17.71 percent.

He conveyed that the West Sulawesi Provincial Government and the West Sulawesi Ministry of Religion agreed and collaborated to carry out a campaign to prevent child marriage in schools by implementing and through da'wah, both during Friday sermons, as well as at meetings of the taklim assembly and lectures in the month of Ramadan.

"Do a campaign to prevent child marriage, and be carried out during the Ramadan safari during the holy month of Ramadan, which is already near," he also said.

The Regional Secretary said this was an effective technique in the execution of a public policy and of course a commitment was needed by pouring it into regional development planning.

Head of the West Sulawesi Regional Office of the Ministry of Religion, Syafruddin Baderung, stated that he would carry out discussion group forum activities (FGD) to strengthen the capacity of the head and religious instructors in preventing child marriage.

He conveyed that 500 penghulu and religious instructors in West Sulawesi would be given training in campaigning for the prevention of child marriage.

"A uniform sermon will be carried out and take a sociological, religious, and other approaches, and a pilot area will be made to prevent early childhood marriage," he also said.