奇聞! 印尼16歲男子迎娶71歲老太!

A teenager in Indonesia has married a woman in her 70s, in breach of both custom and the law.

日前，印度尼西亞一位少年和一名70多歲的老太太結婚，違背了當地的風俗和法律。

The case came to light when a video of the wedding was circulated online.

在二人的結婚視頻在網上傳播之後，這件事才泄露出來。

The 16-year-old groom is technically still underage but village officials permitted an "unregistered marriage" after the pair reportedly threatened to commit suicide.

理論上來說，這位16歲的新郎還未成年，但村裏幹部卻允許了這樁“未登記的婚姻”--在報道稱他們以自殺相威脅後。

Under Indonesian law, women must be at least 16 and men at least 19 to get married.

根據印度尼西亞的法律規定，只有在女子年滿16歲、男子年滿19歲的情況下，他們纔可以結婚。

Local media say the two grew close when the woman took care of the boy while he was suffering from a bout of Malaria.

據當地媒體報道，該少年在患上瘧疾後受到了那位老太太的照顧，兩人的關係慢慢的親密起來。

Cik Ani, chief of their village in South Sumatra, told the AFP news agency that "since the boy is underage, we have decided to carry out the marriage privately".

這個村子位於南蘇門答臘島，村長Cik Ani在接受法新社採訪時表示：“由於新郎未成年，我們決定私下舉辦婚禮。”

Yenni Izzi, an activist from the Women Crisis Centre in Palembang who campaigns to end child marriage, told the BBC the wedding was "a very uncommon case".

發起結束兒童婚姻運動的帕爾曼邦婦女事務中心的活動家Yenni Izzi在接受BBC採訪時表示，這樁婚姻是“非常罕見的事”。

"The boy decided to get married not for economic or physical reasons but because she gives him attention and love," he explained.

他解釋說：“這個男孩決定結婚，不是爲了經濟或者生理原因，只是因爲這位老太太給了他愛和關注。”

"He is not mature enough, so to get that attention and love he thinks living together is the answer. And living together means getting married.’’

“他還不夠成熟，所以他認爲要得到那樣的關注和愛就要在一起生活，在一起生活就意味着兩人要結婚。”

Regional officials have expressed concern about the case, but it is unclear whether they will take action against it.

地區官員也關注了此事，但還不清楚他們是否會採取行動反對。