Based on the previous table, Madurese women
were not always experiencing problems on their
early age marriage. Instead, they were feeling
harmony, happiness, and subjective well-being in
their early married life.
4 DISCUSSIONS
Madura has known as a part of Indonesia with
relatively high rates of early marriage. Most of the
early marriage was done by teenagers. One of the
developmental tasks on teenager was preparing for
marriage and building a family (Havighurst cited on
Hurlock, 1994; Havighurst cited on Agustiani,
2009). While in fact, many teenagers were required
to finish the adult developmental task, in which to
had an early marriage.
Several factors were contributed to early
marriage in Madura namely economy factors,
education factors, religion factors, tradition factors,
the desire to be married by the children themselves,
parents concern on their child behavior, readiness, to
reduce family economy burden, lack of awareness
on the importance of education, children
matchmaking, practicing jampi-jampi (black magic),
and manipulating married age(Hairi, 2009; Jannah,
2011; Sumbulah & Jannah, 2012; Muzaffak, 2013;
Sakdiyah&Ningsih, 2013; Munawara, Yasak, Dewi,
2015).
The occurrence of early marriage in Madura was
arising issues such as disharmony on married life,
difficulties in fulfilling household needs, parental
and child education issues, also an incompatibility
between partner which led to divorce.
Despite the issues mentioned above, early
marriage was not always causing issues and adverse
effects. As a study by Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith
(1999) and Bawono (2017) found that marriage
significantly related to subjective well-being.
Furthermore, Diener, et al. (cited in Diener, Suh,
Lucas, & Smith, 1999) also found that person who
married were happier compared to a person who was
divorced, separated, or single.
This statement indeed supported by Maulida
(2014) in which found marital status significantly
influenced individual subjective well-being. As
Stutzer and Frey (2006) referred marriage as one of
the most important aspects of life which affected the
level of the individual's subjective well-being. These
married consisted of not only adult marriage but also
teenager marriage, known as early marriage
(Miswiyawati& Lestari, 2017).
Furthermore, according to Miswiyawati and
Lestari (2017) stated that early marriage couple felt
satisfied with their families (e.g., parents, siblings).
These population also experiencing positive
affection as they are happy living together with their
partner, glad to be taken care of by their partner, and
received support from their families. On the other
hand, early marriage couple also found that they
were susceptible to jealousy towards their partner,
and overly sensitive which caused to irritability.
According to Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith
(1999), marriage was one of the factors which affect
individual's subjective well-being. A person who
experienced high subjective well-being will be
easily adapt to circumstances and live their life with
satisfaction and happiness (Sasmita &Yulianti,
2013). In contrast, people who felt unhappy or ill-
being (on psychology term) could cause depression,
anxiety, and unpleasant emotion (Pavot & Diener,
2009).
Thus, teenagers with high subjective well-being
were expected to be the main engine of economic
growth in Indonesia on 2030 since they could live
their life with satisfaction and happily (Yuswohady,
2018). As Yuswohady (2018) predicted that a peak
of bonus demography would occur at that year,
which referred to the number of productive age
population (15-64 years old) will exceeds
unproductive age population (below 14 years old
and over 65 years old).
5 CONCLUSIONS
Numerous studies on early marriage in Indonesia has
been conducted previously, including Madura
Island. Findings suggested that factors contributed to
early marriage in Madura consisted of economic
factors, education factors, religion factors, tradition
factors, children matchmaking, practicing jampi-
jampi (black magic), and manipulating married age.
Other researches related to issues on early
marriage were also brought up by researcher
likewise. Findings found that disharmony in married
life, difficulties in fulfilling household needs,
parenting and child education issues, and
incompatibility toward partner which led to divorce
were various issues regarding early marriage.
On the other hand, Madurese women who had
early marriage were not always experiencing issues
in their marriage life as mentioned earlier. Instead,
they felt happy, harmony, and sufficient quality of
life on their marriage life, whereas could lead them
in achieving subjective well-being.