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Women caught wearing tight pants given skirt in Aceh
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-05-28 12:37
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Sharia police check the identification cards of women caught wearing tight pants during a street raid in Arongan Lambalek district in Indonesia's West Aceh province May 26, 2010. [Agencies] |
He said any shopkeepers caught violating restrictions on selling short skirts and jeans would face a revocation of their business licenses.
No merchants have been seen displaying jeans or tight clothing in stores in West Aceh district in recent weeks.
The regulation is the latest effort to promote strict moral values in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, where most of the roughly 200 million Muslims practice a moderate form of the faith.
It does not set out a specific punishment for violators, but says "moral sanctions" will be imposed by local leaders.
Mansur said women caught violating the ban more than three times could face two weeks in detention.
Rights groups say the regulation violates international treaties and the Indonesian constitution.
Aceh, a semiautonomous region, made news last year when its provincial parliament passed an Islamic, or Shariah, law making adultery punishable by stoning to death. It also has imposed prison sentences and public lashings for homosexuals and pedophiles.
