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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Her first contract marriage was to a tourist from Saudi Arabia. He was in his 50s, and she was 17. They wed in a small ceremony in a guest room at a three-star hotel in Jakarta under a controversial provision of Islamic law. After five days, the man got on a plane back to Saudi Arabia, where he unilaterally ended the marriage by saying the Arabic word for divorce: "talaq." Nikah mut'ah - or "pleasure marriage," as the temporary arrangement is known - has become an economic lifeline in the mountainous region of Indonesia called Puncak. The practice is so common that the area has become closely associated with what Indonesians often refer to as "divorcee villages."

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She had never even told him her real name, instead calling herself Cahaya, an alias she has used ever since in a decade's worth of contract marriages. She lost track of the exact number long ago, but believes it is at least 15 " all tourists from the Middle East.

"It's all torture," she said. "All I had in mind, every time, was I wanted to go home."

#1 | Posted by censored at 2024-09-18 05:00 PM | Reply

Religion is used as a weapon to subjugate women for eons.

It is time to kick it to the curb.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-19 09:04 AM | Reply

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