Buyer beware: House for sale in Indonesia comes with wife

An online advert for a house in Indonesia has gone viral online after the woman selling it offered to throw in an unusual extra – her hand in marriage. The ad reads like a regular house listing for the most part, saying that the single-storey property has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a parking space and a fish pond. But it also proposes a “rare offer”: “when you buy this house, you can ask the owner to marry you”, alongside a picture of Wina Lia, a 40-year-old widow and beauty salon owner, leaning against a car in front of the house.

I told a friend of mine who also works as property agent that if there is a buyer who is a single man or a widower who wants to buy a house, and at the same time look for a wife, he can let me know as I’m also a widow.

Wina Lia, property owner

Lia says she’s been overwhelmed by journalists coming to interview her, and even the police in the conservative, Muslim-majority country have been asking questions. The police “came to verify the news as they consider it as an improper advertisement. But I explained to them that it was not my idea,” she said. The mother of two says she had expected the property agent to pass on the offer to a limited number of people, not put an ad online.

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