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http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/06/28/taboo-prevents-indonesians-from-buying-condoms.htm

Taboo prevents Indonesians from buying condoms

• Gemma Holliani Cahya and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani The Jakarta Post
  
  
  
  In big cities in Indonesia, rubbers can be as cheap as US$1.19 a dozen, are as ubiquitous as convenience stores.
  
  
  A good education and general awareness about the benefits of rubbers appear not to help much in getting Indonesians to buy the rubbers.
  
  Being married also does not seem to help people overcome the cultural barrier.
  
  
  Embarrassed to buy rubbers
  
  
  Jakarta resident Naufal, 26, who has been married for almost two years, said he never bought rubbers at the same store and always made sure to buy it far away from his home, so that the cashiers would not recognize his face.
  Naufal said he had developed this habit after an unpleasant situation. When he was a university student, he had bought rubbers at a store near his campus. Later, when he was getting ready to leave the store, an elderly woman approached him and asked him whether he was a college student.
  “When I said yes, she looked at me and said, ‘be careful with your way of life, son’. I just nodded and quickly walked away,” Naufal recalled.
  
  Since that day, Naufal has set his mind on avoiding such awkward situations, even if that literally means going the extra mile to buy the rubbers.
  
  His mother-in-law’s wish for a grandchild as soon as possible is another factor.
  “The cashiers know my wife and my mother-in-law, because they often shop there. If my mother-in-law finds out we have been buying rubbers, it might spark drama, because she is expecting grandchildren from us,” he told The Jakarta Post.
  
  
  
  Sasha, 25, not her real name, and her boyfriend of three years, who live in Yogyakarta, have decided to no longer use rubbers in the past two years.
  
  They decided to just go with their feeling; “now we know when to pull it out,” she said.
  
  “We used rubbers in the first months of our relationship, but nowadays, we don’t use them anymore. 
  
  My boyfriend said he was too embarrassed to buy them at the store.
  
  He was afraid people would judge him or someone he knew would see him,”
  
  Sasha said they had tried to buy them online, because that was less embarrassing. However, recently they had decided it was easier to just stop using them.
  
  
  In 2012, there were 8.3 million unintended pregnancies in the Southeast Asian region. Of that number, 57 percent were aborted, 12 percent were miscarriages and 31 percent resulted in unplanned births.