Odita Rahman’s two wives reported him to the police for being lazy.

Odita Rahman, 26 years old, married Neli Simajuntak, 26, three years ago but apparently was unsatisfied with only one wife and so six months ago he took another, Turaya, 31.

Despite the added financial burdens that having another wife brings Odita Rahman did not pick up the pace in the money-seeking area – in fact he became even lazier than usual, to the point where both of his wives became fed up and visited the Cilincing, North Jakarta police station to file a complaint against their idle husband.

It appears that Odita Rahman simply does not like working, but due to embarrassment about this, has been pretending that he is sick. He borrowed a plaster case that his nephew had once needed and put it on his left leg, claiming to have suffered a broken bone. His wives however were having none of it. He said later:

I’ve been pretending to be sick for a week now.

And:

I’m ashamed of it [being lazy]. Rather than seen to be lazy I pretended to be injured.

In order to live he has been relying on the labours of his two wives. He has been charged by police under both the marriage law and the fraud law. tempo