A young lady who had happily tied the
knot with her "husband" has shockingly
found out that the person she married
was actually a woman. Suwarti who posed as a woman The woman simply identified as Heniyati from
Indonesia happily tied the knot with her "husband" Suwarti, but months later found out the he was only a woman like herself.
Suwarti, an Indonesian woman herself,
allegedly posed as a man in order to get
married.
According to Police, she has been arrested
after the shocked wife discovered the deception.
According to NDTV, Suwarti, who like many
Indonesians goes by one name, was detained
on Thursday after the wife alerted authorities,
several months after the pair tied the knot in a
ceremony on Java island. The wife, Heniyati, became suspicious when
her "husband" refused to consummate the marriage.
Suwarti has admitted to the deception and
could face up to seven years in prison for
falsifying her identity, according to local chief
detective Muhamad Kariri. "She falsified all the documents for the
marriage... My family and I were
deceived. We feel so embarrassed," Heniyati, 25, told the Jakarta Post newspaper.
Police said they were still investigating the
reason for Suwarti's deception.
All Suwarti would say is that she had been
disappointed by a previous marriage, from
which she had a 17-year-old child, Kariri added.
When they met, 40-year-old Suwarti gave
herself the male name Muhamad Efendi
Saputra and said she was a police officer.
After a whirlwind romance lasting a couple of
months, the pair married late last year in their home district of Boyolali, with Suwarti
reportedly even hiring people to pretend to be
her male alter ego's relatives at their wedding.
After several months of married life, Heniyati
finally discovered an identity card in Suwarti's
wallet showing who she really was, said Kariri. Society in Muslim-majority Indonesia,
particularly in rural areas, remains deeply
conservative, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender community often face
discrimination and a lack of acceptance.
