Sheldon Archer, a 72 years old British and he really IS an opportunist

Disclaimer: Article is contained with pure general opinion, which the author doesn’t f***** care if someone got the message.

I was up all night yesterday and the least thing I can do at 5 AM in the morning was online. So I went blog-walking and stop by at anotherfool and there was a big headline on his latest post, which I assume quite intense “Bandot Tua, Jakarta Post dan Indonesiaku Yang Malang”. I read and I was quite shocked with the article itself. I feel anger and somehow embarrassed.

I’ll make it short:

On 29 April 2007, Jakarta Post – English Newspaper based in Jakarta – wrote about a British guy who married to a local girl at Probolinggo, Easy Java. Sheldon Archer, 72 years old and Yuyun 23 years old was married for 3 years and have a good life (according to them..). Duncan Graham, the contributor tried to open up a slice about what exactly makes Sheldon Archer left his life in London and come to Indonesia.

Thanks to Duncan Graham, he did a pretty good job, but unfortunately makes me furious to this old-hag, rather give a sympathy for his interest on Indonesia itself. Here some quote of the quotation from Jakarta Post:

For Yuyun is 23 and Sheldon is 72. To save you the job of scrabbling for the calculator, that’s almost half a century of difference. “I married a child,” said Sheldon. He said he hasn’t been wed before, but has had other partners. He also has a daughter in the U.S.; Yuyun has inherited a stepchild two years older than herself.

I am (Gerry) have nothing against grandpa married a young woman. To be frankly, they do like each other (i think..) and look quite happy and satified (i bet..). And there he goes:

“Let’s face it; every middle-aged man has a fantasy of making it with a young girl — just ask Bill Clinton. Here in Indonesia fantasy can become fact.”

For a 72 years old man, talking shit like that, on the newspaper. I don’t get it. For a person who married a girl with east culture, apparently he doesn’t have any clue about the culture itself. First of all, he is not Bill Clinton and not a middle-aged man.

What makes me even angrier was when I read that this couple currently act like a Cupid. They run an online dating service and provide information about a local girl to Westerner over the internet who are looking for women to be married (i put it in a nice way here..). Check the site here @ www.an-asian-wife.com.

Okay before going any further with this, check out the description of the site. It stated:

Once we arrive in Probolinggo, my wife Yuyun will introduce you to drop-dead, gorgeous women from villages and small towns who just love Caucasions; don’t care much about your age or financial status and who will love you as a person, not as a meal ticket. Imagine walking down the street or through a store where all the women smile and wave at you, wanting to meet you. Would you like a wife who never complains, nags or refuses sex? One who devotes her life to making you happy?

Maybe this couple wasn’t took their time for a better URL for their site, www.slave-4-u.com might be better. I just can’t remember the term for a person who provide girls to a stranger, anybody wanna remind me?

I’ll take one of the girl as the example:

Ana Fauziah

Date of birth: Aug 11 1992
Height: 156cm
weight: 40 Kilos
Religion: Moslem
Occupation: Student
Status: Single no child
Language: Indonesian
Phone: Yes
Email: Yes, via a friend
Preferred age: 25 to 45

Qualities
Although I am very young
I would like a serious relationship
with a western man and
would like to marry in a couple of years
I love swimming and would like to travel

Looking for
A nice man from the west
who would like to spend all his
time with me

quite outrageous, I would say. Does her parents know about this? or regarding to her age, is it legal? or maybe the younger the better?

The BIGGEST QUESTION actually how low Indonesia have been sinking?

Yea..yea, this guy might be out of his mind or something. But what happened to a faithful married? to love? to common-sense at least..?

Or maybe now it’s all about “married a potential-big-pocket-Westerner-love-i-don’t-care” ?

For some reasons, the teenagers-girls-women on the list of Sheldon Archer’s list can’t be blamed. It’s all about opportunity. Indonesia, which 20 % of the population still lived under the poverty line, is forced to take any measurement to break the line any possible way. And the women from this community wouldn’t mind to marry as soon as possible. From this Sheldon case, we can see how some narrow-minded and uneducated women could end up to.

Maybe I am more embarrassed rather than angry, but I just can’t stand that Indonesian being treated like a commodity.

Related Link:

- The Article by Jakarta Post itself

- “Bandot Tua, Jakarta Post dan Indonesiaku Yang Malang” by Anotherfool

- “Sheldon and Yuyun Archer” by IndonesiaNow Blog

- “They’d call me a dirty old man” by Maverick

~ by gerry on May 8, 2007.