PENINGKATAN PERSEPSI DAN PEMAHAMAN REMAJA TERHADAP PENDEWASAAN USIA PERKAWINAN MELALUI EDUKASI DAN PENCIPTAAN LAGU DI DESA MADU SARI TAHUN 2023

Abstract

Background: BKKBN says that the ideal age for marriage is 20-21 years for women and 25 years for men. Early marriage can have a negative impact on the health of mothers and children. With the issuance of Law 16/2019, the minimum age for marriage for women increased from 16 years to 19 years (UNICEF, 2020). UNICEF released data that 2 out of 9 Indonesian girls are married before the age of 18 so it is estimated that there are around 1,220,900 girls who marry early (UNICEF Indonesia et al., 2020). Based on West Kalimantan BPS data, it shows that the proportion of early marriages in West Kalimantan Province shows a fairly high trend, namely 51.8% (West Kalimantan Central Statistics Agency, 2021). Based on report data, Madusari village has a total of 194 teenagers. In 2022, it will be recorded that 61% of women will marry between the ages of 16-20 years, 33% will marry between the ages of 21-35 years and 6% will marry over the age of 35 years in Madu Sari Village (Report of the Head of Madu Village, 2022). Objective: To increase teenagers' knowledge about maturing marriage age. The method used in implementing this activity uses counseling and promotion of songs preventing early marriage. The PkM results show that there has been a change in respondents' perceptions where the pretest results show that there are still respondents who consider early marriage to be good or relative. However, the posttest results show that all respondents have the perception that child marriage or early marriage is something bad. The posttest results also show that respondents understand the various impacts that will occur as a result of early marriage. Conclusion: socialization is important to be carried out by all parties, including the government, religious leaders, community leaders, schools and universities as well as youth groups or communities who care about efforts to prevent early marriage. Socialization has a role as an additional knowledge for them. Suggestion: The importance of various solutions that must be taken to prevent early marriage. One of them is that the discussion space between children and parents must be open