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Nusa Tenggara children facing rough times
The Jakarta Post | Fri, 01/02/2009 5:01 PM | National
West Nusa Tenggara administration on Friday announced that the health and education of the region's children had been adversely affected by the increasing divorce rate there, tempointeraktif.com reports.According to data from the Provincial Religious Court, between January and November 2008 there was a total of 2,901 divorce cases, which is a 30 percent increase from the same period in 2007.
The court's deputy chairman, Mustamiuddin Ibrahim, said the main reason behind the divorces was a low standard of living in the region which had prompted many men to try their luck abroad, especially to Malaysia, Saudi Arabia or Brunei Darussalam.
"Some men have just abandoned their families. This is both because of economic hardships and morality problems," Ibrahim said while adding that an increasing divorce rate came hand in hand with economic pressures.
The high divorce rate had severely impacted the quality of life of children in the region, since their access to healthy living and education had been hampered, he said.
"The high divorce rate has affected the region's human development index," Ibrahim added, without giving details. (and)
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Tamara Schmitz (not verified) — Mon, 01/05/2009 - 8:53pm
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Jamie (not verified) — Fri, 01/02/2009 - 9:15pm
Nobody abandoned their families, it just happened they were busy rallying in the street for the sake of the Palestinians.