Indonesia mulls mini-skirt ban
March 29th, 2012 - 9:23 pm ICT by IANSLondon, March 29 (IANS) Indonesia has plans to ban the mini-skirt under its stringent anti-pornography laws as it believes “they make men do things”.
According to the Muslim-dominated country’s religious affairs minister, one of the considerations in its review of what could be considered pornographic would be “when someone wears a skirt above the knee”, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
Minister Suryadharma Ali literally started a war against the mini-skirt soon after he was appointed to run Indonesia’s new anti-porn task force earlier this month.
Parliamentary speaker Marzuki Alle also recently hit out against the mini-skirt. But he targeted women politicians wearing skirts above the knee.
Alle said he was preparing draft rules banning women politicians and staff members from wearing mini-skirts because “there have been a lot of rape cases and other immoral acts recently and this is because women aren’t wearing appropriate clothes”.
“You know what men are like — provocative clothing will make them do things,” he added.
Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim nation, making up 12 percent of the global Islamic population.
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