Momentum to Strengthen the Movement

ANTARA FOTO/Novrian Arbi

A number of female activists and residents participated in the 2018 Women\'s March action in the Dago area, Dago, Bandung, West Java, Sunday (4/3). The action carried out on the occasion of International Women\'s Day every March 8 was carried out to raise awareness against gender-based injustice, end child marriage, and end violence against women.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Kartini\'s struggle more than a century ago was to free women from all forms of injustice to enable them to choose and determine their future. The commemoration of Kartini Day is a moment to continue her struggle, and one way to do that is to strengthen the movement against child marriage.

Efforts to protect girls from becoming victims of child marriage should be much stronger than during the Kartini era, when many lived in the shackles of colonialism and feudalism.