‘Smartphones make it easy to cheat’: Indonesia minister warns of marriage crisis
Indonesia’s religious affairs minister has warned that smartphones and social media are facilitating adultery and eroding marital bonds, describing the nation as being in a “yellow light” phase of family instability. “Smartphones make it easy to flirt or cheat,” Minister Nasaruddin Umar told a gathering of marriage counsellors on October 30, as quoted by the Jakarta Globe. “If we’re not careful, we’ll end up being slaves to social media.” The warning comes as nearly 400,000 couples divorced in...