Not all Chinese in Southeast Asia are rich and in Indonesia there are many poor ethnic Chinese. Some of them are concentrated in Singkawang that has traditionally "produced" wives for sale to men from Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, China and where there are pockets of ethnic Chinese.

Unspun bets that the bridegrooms in this case are as old and unsavory as the old unsavory Westerners preying on young nubile Asian women that we often see. But if it makes them both happy, who's to say its wrong?