Menurut Council of Foreign Relations, Indonesia merupakan salah satu dari sepuluh negara di dunia dengan angka absolut tertinggi pengantin anak. Indonesia adalah yang tertinggi kedua di ASEAN setelah Kamboja. Diperkirakan satu dari lima anak perempuan di Indonesia menikah sebelum mereka mencapai 18 tahun. Di dunia setidaknya ada 142 juta anak perempuan akan menikah sebelum dewasa dalam satu dekade ini saja (CFR 2015).
Indonesia, beginning of the 1980s. The young journalist Tommy comes into contact with the survivors of the genocide that the New Order regime of General Suharto carried out. To her bewilderment she hears stories about lurid dancing, castrations and the murder by young girls of a number of generals in the night of October 1 1965.
Feminist poetry has become a movement in Indonesia. Women poets are challenging traditional notions of form and content. They include their personal experiences and strongly believe in the notion of the personal is political, and often breaking down the barrier between the personal and the political.