KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesia must change its laws to end child marriage in the world's most populous Muslim country where thousands of girls are trapped in a kind of"hell", an Indonesian lawmaker said on Monday .
But a senior lawmaker from the ruling party of Indonesian President Joko Widodo said there have been no progress. "They lose their freedom, their rights to education and their future. It kills their dreams especially for the girls who cannot continue school," she added.
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