Holiday Ayo - The low level of education, the high rate of early marriage and the death of the husband are some of the factors that affect the number of widows in this village. This is the biggest factor that causes many women to be widowed.

As a result, these villages were dubbed widow villages. There is even a 50 percent of this village consists of widows. As cited from sindonews.com, the following is a list of villages with the most widows in Indonesia.

1. Batuah Village, Banjarbaru

Batuah Village is located in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan. According to local figures, from 37 houses in Kemuning Village, Batuah Village, there are 26 widows who have to support their families. This means that only nine families have fathers and husbands.

The majority of widows in this village were left behind by their husbands. Where they then decided not to remarry and chose to support their own family until now.

2. Arbain, Pasuruan

The Arbain complex, Pasuruan, East Java is inhabited by widows who are unable to meet their daily needs. Therefore they are not charged a house rental fee or free. They are only charged for daily living expenses such as food and electricity.

With this complex, many widows were helped after their husbands died. This complex was founded by a philanthropist named Hanif Kamaluddin who received a will from his mother to help support poor widows. Hanif eventually established the Arbain Complex which contained 40 houses.

Prior to entering this complex, widows will be subject to background checks. Starting from the marriage certificate, divorce certificate, husband's death certificate, and various other documents needed. They then have to comply with the rules that they are not allowed to bring male guests who are not their families into the house unless there is an accompanying neighbor.

Meanwhile, those who want to get married are welcome to leave the complex which was established in 2001 so that other widows in need can occupy the house.

3. Ciburayut Village, Bogor

Ciburayut village is located at the foot of Mount Salak, Bogor. The majority of widows in this village were left behind by their husbands who worked as sand miners in Mount Salak and died due to work accidents that occurred in the sand mining area.

In addition to work accidents, there is also a husband who died due to illness. This makes the number of widows in this village very large. According to Ade Suryadi as a local community leader, the number of widows living in Ciburayut Village reaches 30 people. Meanwhile, the number of family heads living in this village reaches 65 families.

This shows that almost 50 percent of the families in this village are widows. The low education factor and the high rate of early marriage have also made several widows in this village divorced two to three times.