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    'Tinder for polygamists': Indonesian firm angers with app for multiple marriages

    Online dating service for married men and would-be brides, ayopoligami.com, is courting controversy in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation
    by Kate Lamb in Jakarta Oct 05, 2017 2 minutes
    A new Tinder-like dating app for wannabe polygamists is courting controversy in Indonesia. Photograph: ayopoligami.com

    A new Tinder-like dating app for wannabe polygamists is courting controversy in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, where such unions are legal but largely seen as taboo.

    The application, which has been downloaded 50,000 times since its release this May, is marketed as an online platform to match male and female users ready to be part of a “big family”.

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