Suswono praises Jakarta’s wealthy widows marrying unemployed youth

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

Candidate for deputy governor of DKI Jakarta number 1 Sweden proposes to a rich widow in Jakarta to marry a young man who is still unemployed. According to him, this is to improve welfare.

He made this statement when he was talking about the orphan card program. He said there were residents who asked about the widow’s card program.

“Yesterday someone shouted. During this conversation, ‘Sir, is there a widow’s card?’,” said Suswono at Bang Japar’s support declaration at Nyi Ageng Serang Building, South Jakarta, Saturday (26/ 10) as reported by detik .

“I assure you that there will be poor widows. But why do rich widows want cards too? I suggest that rich widows marry unemployed young men,” he continued.

Suswono exemplified the story of Siti Khadijah and the Prophet Muhammad SAW. He said that Siti Khadijah was a rich widow when she married the prophet.

At that time, Khadijah was 40 years old. At the same time, Muhammad SAW was 25 years old.

“Agree? Do you remember Khadijah? You know Khadijah, right? She was a conglomerate. Who did she marry? Yes, the prophet was not a prophet at that time. He was still a young man of 25 years. ‘age, right? Well, that’s an example of something like that,” said Suswono.

At that time, Suswono also said that the DKI Jakarta Regional Government would take care of orphans. According to him, orphans will become the foster children of the governor.

“Being orphans, remember to take care of orphans who will be the governor’s children. Ladies, don’t be, this is GR, ma’am. Don’t take this to mean that the governor marrying his widow. No,” he said jokingly.

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