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Indonesia's Aceh to start enforcing Islamic dress code this month
AFP - Asian Pacific ^ | Monday March 4, 2:57 PM | AFP

Posted on 03/04/2002 5:04:13 PM PST by vannrox

Monday March 4, 2:57 PM




Indonesia's Aceh to start enforcing Islamic dress code this month




BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) - Authorities in Indonesia's devoutly Muslim province of Aceh, who have introduced Islamic sharia law as a concession to curb separatist sentiment, said they will start enforcing an Islamic dress code in towns and cities this month.


Another six deaths were meanwhile reported in the decades-long struggle between security forces and rebels fighting for independence for the province in the north of Sumatra ialand,


Provincial secretary Thantawi Ishak said the regulations would be introduced on March 15.


"In the first phase, proper Muslim attire for women will be required in all urban areas in Aceh," he told AFP. Islam requires women to cover everything except their face, hands and feet.



Muslim men must cover their midriff and wear shorts which cover their knees.


Ishak said police would conduct street checks but initially violators would just be warned and excluded from urban areas. Future sanctions would be decided in talks between the sharia office, the Muslim Scholars' Council and local police.


"Firm sanctions would come from Allah because the order to cover up the body comes from the Holy Koran," he added.


The Indonesian government in 1999 authorised provincial authorities to implement partial Sharia law. Last year parliament also passed a law which grants the province greater autonomy and a much larger share of oil and gas revenues.


Ishak also said all government and private offices must instal business signs in Arabic-style script.



Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, but Islam is not the official religion and sharia law is not in force anywhere else in the archipelago.


An estimated 10,000 people have died since the Free Aceh Movement began to fight for an independent Islamic state in December 1976.


Three civilians including a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds in the Bireuen district on Saturday following a military search in the area the previous evening, residents said.


Hundreds of villagers have fled their homes, they said.


At Juli Teupin in the same district villagers found the body of a farmer but the cause of death was not immediately known.


The bodies of three other men, all with gunshot wounds, were found Sunday in two separate locations at Lamno in West Aceh, a humanitarian activist said.




TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islamicviolence
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1 posted on 03/04/2002 5:04:14 PM PST by vannrox (MyEMail)
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To: vannrox
My spouse has been reading "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. My view is that if Indonesia uses this incremental, creeping jihadization of their country to support terrorist attacks against the US, we should unleash the Japanese, and let *them* administer any postwar reconstruction. Hopefully Japanese carriers passing through on their way to the Arabian Sea has already gotten some Indonesian attention.

While of course the Japanese government now is not as it was then, certainly there are enough Indonesians to recall Japanese occupation - if not, there are always good history books to consult.

2 posted on 03/04/2002 5:36:32 PM PST by ikanakattara
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To: vannrox
Great. Another blood bath in the making. I am getting so tired of this. Watch, someone, probably either us or the Aussies, will end up having to go there and stand between them to try to keep the members of the peaceful religion from killing all the others.

A. Cricket

3 posted on 03/04/2002 5:38:25 PM PST by another cricket
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To: another cricket
Some FR guru tell me:

On whose watch did we abandon the Portuguese and start suppoting the Indonesians on the East Timor issue?

4 posted on 03/04/2002 5:45:55 PM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: another cricket
Sorry Cricket, meant also to ask when we dumped the East Timor autonomy deal.

That's twice (Kosovo and ET) we have dumped valid claims in favor of Muslim terrorists.

5 posted on 03/04/2002 5:48:29 PM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: Kenny Bunk
It look like from the Google Search that we did it in 1999. Yep, you know who's watch.

There does seem to be a pattern here.

A. Cricket

6 posted on 03/04/2002 6:00:30 PM PST by another cricket
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To: vannrox
Ishak also said all government and private offices must instal business signs in Arabic-style script.

HUH?!?!?! SAY WHAT?!

7 posted on 03/04/2002 6:10:40 PM PST by kezekiel
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To: vannrox
I predict thgat they go full tilt jihadist, and threaten the Aussies.
8 posted on 03/04/2002 7:50:40 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: kezekiel
Ishak also said all government and private offices must instal business signs in Arabic-style script.

HUH?!?!?! SAY WHAT?!

"Bahasa Indonesia" is the official language of Indonesia, sort of an Indonesian Esperanto. It is usually written in the Roman alphabet (like English), but can also be written with a modified form of the Arabic alphabet.

In the rest of Indonesia, it's strictly a matter of personal choice, though the government uses the Roman alphabet officially.

9 posted on 03/04/2002 7:51:17 PM PST by Salman
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To: Kenny Bunk
Someone already posted that it was on Clinton's watch.

I have to ask, though -- do they have oil?

Open Anwr!! and invest more in cold nuclear fusion research!! Only then can we be certain that our choice to interfere, and on whose side, will not be biased.

10 posted on 03/04/2002 8:38:52 PM PST by bjcintennessee
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I have to ask, though -- do they have oil?

No oil that I know of, but they do have "sweet" coal. In fact they have a world monopoly on it since x42 signed an EO making it impossible for us to get at our reserves in Utah.

A. Cricket

11 posted on 03/05/2002 4:20:10 AM PST by another cricket
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To: another cricket; *Islamic_Violence
no oil that I know of

Indonesia is an OPEC member.

12 posted on 03/12/2002 4:28:01 PM PST by denydenydeny
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To: denydenydeny
Well, I did say "that I know of"! Makes sense though that it they have coal that they would have oil.

Thanks for the information.

A. Cricket

13 posted on 03/12/2002 4:34:36 PM PST by another cricket
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