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Pants ban for women draws condemnation
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Oct 31, 2009 02:04 PST
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From Joyo
The Jakarta Post Saturday, October 31, 2009
Pants ban for women draws condemnation
Hotli Simanjuntak, The Jakarta Post, Banda Aceh
The sharia regulation prohibiting women from wearing pants in
West Aceh regency drew strong condemnation from public circles
in Aceh province.
"The enforcement of the regulation is an accumulation of the
negative views against women from the perspective of Islamic
sharia," said Norma Susanti, the women and children's division
head of Aceh Human Rights NGO Coalition. She added that the
regulation, issued by the West Aceh regent, was very
discriminative in nature and very detrimental to women.
"Islamic sharia is not discriminative against women, but it's
different when it is used as a political means by men to
restrain women's movements.
"There are many important issues the government should be
handling rather than dealing with dress codes or someone's
sins," Norma said.
Although Aceh has enforced Islamic sharia law, social problems
have instead upset society further, such as the crime rate that
has continued to rise, with increases in robbery, murder, rape
and abduction cases.
"We are accused of being people who are against God when we
criticize such policies. These accusations have made us tired of
continuing the struggle," Norma said.
Legal expert Saifudin Bantasyam from Syiah Kuala University said
the ban on women wearing trousers was not legally strong enough
to be enforced.
"The ordinance is merely a circular which has no legal standing,
except for the internal interests of the regency administration."
He added the bylaw could not be implemented because Aceh already
had a provincial ordinance regulating the dress code in
accordance with Islamic sharia.
"The ordinance doesn't regulate on the types of clothing women
should wear, but only a dress code that is decent and in
accordance with sharia, and only that," he said.
Aceh Ulema Assembly (MPU) chairman Muslim Ibrahim similarly
criticized the regulation, urging it to be reviewed. "We should
not be arrogant and force others not to wear pants," he said.
Also slamming the regulation was Taufik Riswan, director of West
Aceh Women and Child Protection Research Institute, who said the
regent was "overreacting".
"The regulation is against the principles of human rights and
the 1945 Constitution," Taufik said.
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