POPULAR culture in Indonesia exposes widows to stigmatisation; they are labelled sexually lascivious and given other unsavoury traits, like the image of the West’s femme fatale.
Yet, while widows are commonly portrayed as objects of men’s sexual desire, they are actually among the world’s most disadvantaged groups – widows are prone to poverty and marginalisation.
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