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

Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy. - JP/ANN

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.