The percentage of early marriages in South Kalimantan is the highest in Indonesia but the poverty
rate in South Kalimantan is the third lowest position. This gives an early indication that early marriage in
the province is not associated with poverty. Therefore, the case of early marriage in South Kalimantan is
interesting to observe. This raises the question of what causes early marriages in South Kalimantan and are
there early marriages have a correlation with poverty and other indicators: education and health levels and why
early marriages occur. To answer that data collection is done by documentation of interviews transcript and
data report from the Central Statistics Agency of South Kalimantan. This research found that the causes of
early marriage in South Kalimantan are economic problems and as a way to protect families. This study also
found that there is a significant negative correlation between early marriages and the level of education ( -
0,005 < 0,05) and between early marriages and health (-0,001 < 0,05). Surprisingly, there is no
significant correlation between early marriages and poverty (0,073 > 0,05). This means that the higher the
number of early marriages, the lower the level of education and health and vice versa. This finding is
important for policy makers, communities, and religious leaders to focus on supporting public education to
prevent early marriage and break the cycle of problems associated with early marriage