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Indonesia District Bans Tight Trousers for Women
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Oct 27, 2009 14:58 PST
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From Joyo
Indonesia District Bans Tight Trousers for Women
By Reza Munawir
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Oct. 28 (Reuters) - Women may soon
be banned from wearing tight trousers in parts of an Indonesian
province that practices strict Islamic law, and offenders could
see their attire cut up.
Aceh is the only province in predominantly Muslim Indonesia to
use Islamic sharia for its legal code. The previous provincial
government passed a controversial law in September allowing
adulterers to be stoned to death.
Now Ramli Mansyur, regent of a district in West Aceh, said on
Tuesday he plans to introduce a regulation forcing women to wear
Muslim dress, which could come into effect in December.
"Trousers are allowed, as long as the woman also wears a long
skirt down to her ankles," he said. "The fashion has become too
open, and it embarrasses me."
Mansyur said women who will flout the law will not be served at
government offices and their trousers could be destroyed. He has
ordered 7,000 skirts to be set aside for women who cannot afford
to buy such attire.
"If a woman wears pants and tucks her top in, that's wrong. Even
if she is wearing a headscarf, her dress can still show her body
shape, and that is not perfect Muslim dress," the head of sharia
department in West Aceh, Nur Djuned, also said.
Aceh, on the far western tip of the Indonesian archipelago, is
sometimes referred to as the "verandah of Mecca" because the
staunchly Muslim province was one of the first parts of the
country to turn to Islam.
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