Sugar dating, a mutually favorable relationship between sugary mothers and fathers and their sugary young children, has been a popular trend in Indonesia for the past five years.In 2018, an Indonesian Twitter user shared his joy at having a sugary father.The thread went viral and the hashtag became a trending topic on the platform.In April, many women also met online to communicate what it was like to be young children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
SeekingArrangement, the world’s largest sugar dating site, recently showed in a press release the developing trend of the sugar industry in Indonesia, revealing that Jakarta is in the most sensitive place on the list of Indonesian cities with the highest number of sugary parents and babies.On its 2020 heat map, there are 4221 Sugar Daddies and 10,200 Sugar Babies in the capital. Bandung (a metropolitan domain of West Java) and Surabaya (the largest city at the time in Indonesia) rank third and third, with 1,417 and 1,069 sugars respectively.
The knowledge does not come with the amount of sugary moms for dating arrangements in Indonesia.
SeekingArrangement CEO and founder Brandon Wade believes the upward trend is due to economic inequality in the country discussed in his report, namely Indonesia.
“Driven through uncontrollable pressures to achieve a very popular life, young people are now resorting to choice tactics for some of the most important activities in their lives rather than opting for bulky loans that are hard to discharge in the first place,” Wade said in a statement.
SeekingArrangement noted that the inability to pay tuition fees in line with schooling may be one of the main points where sugary young children are looking for older couples.In Indonesia, only 12, according to the percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds, have been licensed.In most primary cities, 56% of young Indonesians cannot go to college.However, there is no transparent evidence that young Indonesians become sweet little children to continue according to education.
She also assumes that the industry is governed by women, as the gender pay gap still exists.The World Economic Forum survey, cited through SeekingArrangement in the press release, shows that women under the age of 30 earn 27.64% less than their male counterparts.for the same position.
“Tutoring, monetary support, opportunities and a more comfortable sense of life” are among the benefits of sugar dating,” Wade added.
But sugar dating remains debatable in Indonesia.Sugar dating in Indonesia is for a married man or woguy, while some Muslim-majority countries even see the practice as another form of prostitution.
Triyono Lukmantoro, senior professor of communication at Diponegoro University in Semarang, Central Java, told Indonesian news platform Kumparan that cash is not the only explanation for why the phenomenon is gaining popularity.
“[These Sugar Daddies] need to assert their strength over women’s bodies and monetary situation.In a patriarchal society, sugar dating provides the best opportunity to express this desire,” Lukmantoro said.