Posted on 10/15/2014 8:45:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MATARAM, Indonesia (AFP) - An Indonesian district has ordered male civil servants to pay 1 million rupiah (S$100) to marry a second wife to crack down on polygamy, officials said on Wednesday, but activists criticised it as a "crazy" bid to profit from the practice.
Male officials in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country were already required to get written permission from their superiors if they wanted a second wife. Under Islamic law, men can have up to four wives.
But in East Lombok district, they will now also have to pay a 1 million rupiah fee to the local government under a new regulation introduced last month, officials said. "The regulation was issued to make polygamy more difficult for those working in the civil service," said Mr Kharul Rizal, head of the local Parliament, which passed the law.
Male civil servants are required to pay the fee - a large amount for the average Indonesian - for each new marriage after their first.
Polygamy is technically legal in the country of 250 million people, but only when the husband registers his marriages and receives the consent of his other wives....
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How about ... Thailand?
Allah akhbar, alternating evenings because a lady needs a rest.,
They are trying to marry two or more times but we can’t get most of our young blacks to marry even once.
And make the guy count out the million Rupiah first, just to slow things down emotionally, a little.
Makes it more exciting.
Polygamy is completely self punishing.
Great!
Now foronly $100 Barry DunhamSoetoroSoebarkah can have a second wife — Reggie?
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