‘Tinder for polygamists’: Indonesian firm angers with software for multiple marriages
Internet dating solution for married males and potential brides, ayopoligami.com, is courting controversy inside the world’s largest Muslim-majority country
A unique Tinder-like matchmaking app for wannabe polygamists was courting debate in Indonesia. Photograph: ayopoligami.com
A fresh Tinder-like relationships app for wannabe polygamists was courting controversy in Indonesia. Photograph: ayopoligami.com
An innovative new Tinder-like online dating app for wannabe polygamists was courting conflict in Indonesia, the world’s prominent Muslim-majority country, in which these unions tend to be legal but largely seen as taboo.
The application, which was installed 50,000 hours since their production this could, was marketed as an on-line platform to complement female and male customers prepared engage in a “big family”.
Ironically, says the app’s originator, 35-year-old Lindu Cipta Pranayama, it actually was the developing rates of splitting up that prompted their creation.
“In Islam, polygamy are permitted,” he states, “But what takes place in Indonesia, in the event that wife is not willing to share their partner with another woman is actually ultimately they’ll bring separated.”
