Indonesian minister suggests ‘the rich’ should marry ‘the poor’ to reduce poverty rate

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JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy has suggested the country’s rich people should marry those from low-income families, arguing that such cross-class marriages can contribute to reducing the national poverty rate.

Muhadjir said that in Indonesia — the country with the world’s largest Muslim population — religious teachings on “looking for an equivalent match” for marriage had been often misinterpreted.

“The number of Indonesian households is 57.1 million, 9.4 per cent or 5 million of which are categorised as poor. If added to the near-poor households, it is about 16.8 per cent or about 15 million households, ” Muhadjir said as quoted by tempo.co. In Indonesia, however, issuing a fatwa is not the duty of a religious affairs minister as a fatwa is normally issued by Muslim organisations, including the Indonesian Ulema Council , after comprehensive studies by the Fatwa Commission or religious experts who have competence in the relevant areas.

“The goal is that after marriage, the couples will form economically stable households, ” said Muhadjir.

 

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The best of the poor state of mind of Indonesian leaderships..

Yaya. Kahwin empat

Learning from Malaysia

Quick rich scheme Ala Indon Solves all life's issues by marrying many times More happier people To make yet more happy people Quality beats quantity Or Quantity beats quality Tak kisah la Janji bikin anak Puas puas ikhlas

Isn't that what young men and women are doing? Finding a rich sugar parent?

He watch to much sinetron drama.

hi Neelofa ..

How about you scoundrels giving up your salary for the sake of the poor first

Alaa x best nye sinetron ni :'D

Kahwin aja sama Bibiknya Pak... Bibiknya janda anak 3 di kampongnya tuh...

A very legit idea haha

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