Romance magazines, television soap operas and young Indonesian women

What is the relationship between contemporary social practices of courtship and marriage, young women as social actors, and popular cultural texts favoured by young Indonesian women? The analysis presented here is drawn from data including popular magazines and television soap operas (sinetron and telenovela) as well as some short compositions on 'love' written by young Indonesian women in English supplemented by fieldwork notes made in Bali in 1999.