Guaranteeing Children's Future, The Cianjur Regency Government Continues To Speed Up The Prohibition Of Contract Marriage

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CIANJUR - The Cianjur Regency Government, West Java, guarantees the future of children from contract marriages ranging from health, education to population administration. Currently, the district government does not have exact data on the number of children resulting from contract marriages in Cianjur.

"We instruct the relevant agencies to coordinate with sub-districts and villages to collect data on children resulting from contract marriages in Cianjur. We will help with various difficulties experienced by their parents, including those related to administration," said Cianjur Regent, Herman Suherman in Cianjur, as reported by Antara, Thursday, June 10.

After obtaining data certainty, his party will also guarantee health, education to the equivalent high school level. This is proof that the local government cares about the existence of children resulting from contract marriages.

"The data collection is carried out to ensure that these children have been included in the population administration, if not, we will process them so that they remain in the state administration, even though their parents' marital status is contractually," he said.

Meanwhile, regarding the ban on contract marriages in Cianjur, he added, it is currently being accelerated with a target before the end of June. The prohibition contained in the Regent's Regulation will soon be discussed with members of the Cianjur DPRD before being enacted.

Various obstacles are felt by contract marriage actors when they have children from relationships with foreign tourists from the Middle East. For example, taking care of a birth certificate.

"The obstacle we really feel is when we have children from contract marriages with foreign tourists, when children want to go to school because so far, they don't have birth certificates and proof of marriage certificates to take care of the service. We hope we get all the conveniences," said female LL from Cipanas District.