Jakarta – A wedding was aborted in Banten province after it was discovered that the groom was a woman, Indonesian media reported on Tuesday.

The couple was about to exchange vows in front of a Muslim cleric when the groom inadvertently let out a female voice, prompting suspicion among the congregation, Detik.com reported.

"When the cleric asked him questions, his voice turned soft, like that of a woman," said a police officer investigating the woman for fraud.

"It turned out the groom is really a woman," he said. "She looked very much like a man and her voice was heavy."

Last year, an Indonesian man who married someone he met on the social networking Web site Facebook filed a police complaint after finding out that his new wife was actually a man.