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The issue of sexual abused today is quite alarming. Many cases occur not only in big cities, but also throughout the country, including Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. A social rehabilitation center that provides services to Children Associated with Law (ABH) in Lombok, is quite overwhelmed with client problems, especially those related to sexual abused issues among minors. The cases handled are quite complex and varied, such as the high incidence of incest and usually perpetrators of sexual abused are the people closest to the victims. The "Merarik" culture is the habit of "escaping" the bride to marry. This is actually used by many underage children, who love each other. This condition does not support the prevention of sexual abused or the occurrence of early marriage which results in children facing the law. This research is intended to find out 1). What are the causes of the high incidence of sexual abused in Lombok? 2). How to settle incest or "Merarik" cases by the local community, and 3). Who has the role to resolve incest or "Merarik" cases. This research uses descriptive qualitative method, with data collection techniques: interviews, documentation studies and focus group discussions. The results showed that: It turned out that incest cases (perpetrators were biological fathers) dominated the problems encountered (as many as 77.78%, 62.5% and 37.5%), respectively in 2016, 2017 and 2018. In addition, cases of early marriage are still found in Lombok, because without careful consideration, underage children who are still dating, because of the "Merarik" end in early marriage. Even though they are actually not yet fit to build a household. The conclusion of this study is that culture also influences the high incidence of sexual violence in Lombok. Boys become perpetrators, and girls become victims of culture and victims of sexual abused from the people closest to them, who should give them protection.