Twin couples into record book

YOGYAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Museum of Records maintained its status as the key reference of oddities in the country when it accepted into its records yesterday twins who married their twin partners.

Ikawati Handayani wedded her martial arts schoolmate Suhardi, while her twin sister Dwiyani Handaniwati married Suhardi's twin brother Suharjo after six years of an up-and-down relationship.

They celebrated their rare wedding yesterday at Gabusan Art Center, 10 kilometers south of here.

"The two couples are the first of their kind, as far as our records are concerned," the museum's manager Paulus Pangka told The Jakarta Post.

The couples are about the same age. Ikawati was born on March 2, 1972, a few minutes before her sister. Suhardi and Suharjo were born on Christmas Eve.

With the latest entry, the museum has now collected 295 (odd) records since its foundation by humorist and traditional herbal tycoon Jaya Suprana in 1991.

The museum does not say anything, however, about how Ikawati and Dwiyani identify their respective husbands and vice versa. Nobody knows that except them. (swa)