WUNRN

http://www.wunrn.com

 

ACEH province of Indonesia is on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Aceh, alone among Indonesia's provinces, has been authorized by national law to implement local Sharia laws derived from the primary religious sources of Islam.

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Human Rights Watch

 

Direct Link to Full 99-Page Report:

http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/indonesia1210WebVersionToPost.pdf

 

MULTIPLE GENDER THEMES IN REPORT

 

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2010/12/01/policing-morality

 

ACEH, INDONESIA - POLICING MORALITY

Abuses in the Application of Sharia

 

For this Report SHARIA is defined as "a set of standards governing all aspects of life, derived primarily from the Quran, the central religious text of Islam, and the hadiths, a collection of sayings and descriptions of the sunna, or exemplary and normative conduct, of the Prophet Muhammad."

 

LAW AGAINST KHALWAT (SECLUSION)

 

In Aceh today, it is a crime for two mature people of different sexes who are not married or related by blood, to be together in an isolated place.

 

ISLAMIC DRESS REQUIREMENTS

 

Another Acehnese law requires that all Muslims in Aceh wear Islamic attire.....In practice, this means that Muslim women are required to wear the Islamic headscarf in public at all times, and are prohibited from wearing clothing that reveals the shape of the body. While the law applies to both men and women, it places far more stringent restrictions on women than it does on men and has a discriminatory impact. Women constitute the overwhelming majority of those reprimanded pursuant to the law.

 

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