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Buy a house in Indonesia, get a Wife free?
An advert for a house in Indonesia has gone viral since last night after the woman selling it offered to throw in an unusual extra feature for free - her hand in marriage. The Internet ad reads for the most part like a regular house listing, saying that the single-storey property has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a parking space and a fish pond plus a rare feature of a WIFE.
An advert for a house in Indonesia has gone viral since last night after the woman selling it offered to throw in an unusual extra feature for free - her hand in marriage. The Internet ad reads for the most part like a regular house listing, saying that the single-storey property has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a parking space and a fish pond plus a rare feature of a WIFE.
But it also proposes to buyers 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. The ad said that terms and conditions apply, and notes the offer is "for serious buyers and non-negotiable". The house in Sleman, on the island of Java, is on the market for 999 million rupiah (about $75,000).
News of the offer quickly spread among Internet users in social media-crazy Indonesia. Lia told a news agency that she was "shocked at the reaction", as she had been overwhelmed by journalists coming to interview her, and even the police in the conservative, Muslim-majority country had 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 explained that she had asked a friend who was a property agent to help her find a buyer - and in the process a husband - but she had expected him to pass on the news to a limited number of people, not put an ad online. In the Last 48 hours, she got nearly 300 offers for marriage but only one potential buyer for house who had come visiting on Wednesday, but refused to give further details.
