They threatened to commit suicide together if their marriage would be says they seal the marriage in order to prevent adultery between boy's manhood, marriage was sealed in private
Selamat Riayadi of boy in Indonesia has married a woman aged 70. The same story that has gone against the culture and law, was detected after a video of the wedding of the two began to circulate online.
Groom Selamat Riayadi who wear Green clothes and his wife Mrs. Rohaya after you tie the knot
is 16 years and officially still a child but officers were village administrators allow weddings that occur after the two allegedly threatening suicide. Under Indonesian law, a woman must produce at least 16 years old and male when he reached 19 years then he is allowed to tie the knot.
The media in the country say the friendship between the two began to flourish the woman started caring for the young man he began to suffer from Malaria.
The Chief of their village in southern Sumatra, Cik Studies, told news agency AFP that "for a young man not yet the age of adulthood, we decided that the wedding be held in
private."
He also said that the wedding was held on July 2nd it was done "to avoid the sin of fornication" of the young man with the name Selamat, and his wife now who is identified by name Rohaya.
Reports says Rohaya is between the ages of 71 and 75.
The two sit on forests await solemnized marriage
The father of the young man who allegedly died several years ago and his mother married another man.
Rohaya and this is his third marriage and he has several children from his two previous husbands, reports say.
Yenni Izzi, an activist of the Center Women Crisis Centre in Palembang who fighteth against early marriage, told the BBC that the wedding is wonderful.
"The young man decided to marry not for economic or physical reasons but because he handled and loved by the woman," he said.
" enough, so be informed and loved so I think that they live together is the only solution. And to live with him are married. "
Regional government officials have expressed doubts about the story, but did not leak if they will take action.
Minister of Social Affairs Khofifah Indar Parawansa Indonesian was quoted by the Jakarta Post as saying that it is "hard for them to match official in the Office of a religious leader because the young man not yet age into adulthood".
The Governor of South Sumatra Province Alex Noerdin has told Sriwijaya Post that "not a normal wedding. There is a great difference in age.
"In many cases, girls are then marry young. But in this story, a young man and married Grand woman, I cannot say more than that. "
HT @ BBCSwahili
