A wife for $500 for a tourist (5 photos)
It's not exactly a street woman for sale, poor girls really do become wives of foreign tourists, and the family receives a ransom of half a thousand dollars. And for the region, this is a lot of money. 
Who is a "$500 wife"
And it's not the girls themselves who offer to marry them, pestering people on the street. This is done by completely legal marriage agencies that find a wife on demand. 
The main buyers of this service are tourists from the Middle East. After a short wedding ceremony, women must do housework and engage in intimate relations until... the tourist's vacation ends. Then the man gives his wife an official divorce, and he saves face and honor in front of his family.
How many times can you be married in Indonesia
A woman named Kahaya told a journalist that since she was 17, she had married at least 15 times to tourists from the Middle East. 
I LOVE Indonesian brides' makeup, they have no sense of proportion!
She usually makes between $300 and $500 per marriage, after the agency takes their cut. She uses the money to pay rent and care for her sick grandparents.
She is now 28 and hides her involvement in these marriages, telling friends and family that she works as a housekeeper. Because 17 is already too old. But many girls do not hide their marriage, saying that this is a real husband. 
Some of the wives in the agency are not so young, but they are good housewives, many need this
But those who do this several times even get local boyfriends. They lie that they are absent at work, delete correspondence from their husband and the agency to hide the truth.
Another woman, Nisa, entered into more than 20 temporary marriages, saved money and left this practice, marrying an Indonesian immigration officer.
These temporary marriages are not legally recognized in Indonesia, since they contradict the country's laws on marriage. However, there is nothing to formally accuse the woman of, such is the "gray area". 
But real brothels are often smashed here, they are extremely strict about it
Moreover, for rich tourists such a wife is convenient not because you can have sex with her whenever it is convenient, but also because someone cooks for you, washes and takes care of you your entire vacation. Another touch to the vacation in comfort plus. Quite a strange experience, but many men like it.
Can you imagine the opposite situation, that a woman buys her husband for herself for 500 dollars on vacation? Well, neither do I.
