Loud and clear: A file photo of people attending the Women’s March protest to speak up for women’s rights at the National Monument in Central Jakarta last year. — The Jakarta Post/ANN
THE administration of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) has vowed to abolish the practice of kawin tangkap (capture and wed), a form of bride kidnapping commonly practiced on the island of Sumba, after a viral video of an such an event angered a Cabinet minister and the public nationwide.
The administration claimed that the practice violated humanitarian values, the state ideology of Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution.
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