The region’s most populous country, Indonesia, could be close to ending child marriages soon. On Thursday, Indonesia’s Constitutional Court ruled that the 16 years old minimum age requirement for women to marry is unconstitutional and that the government needs to change the minimum age for brides. The petition to the high court was filed by three child bride survivors with the backing of a coalition of campaigners and organisations against child marriage.

A bid to make all sex outside marriage illegal was thrown out by an Indonesian court Thursday, as concerns grow over rising intolerance in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country.Five out of nine judges on the Constitutional Court in the capital Jakarta narrowly rejected the push to criminalise extramarital relations.The unsuccessful petition would have affected unmarried heterosexuals and gay people, who cannot marry in Indonesia – several months after the arrests of a group of men