This is EFFED UP.
Indonesia is looking to ban mini skirts because they’re “too pornographic” according to Suryadharma Ali, Indonesia’s religious affairs minister and head of the anti-porn task force.
He and his task force plan to come up with “a set of universal criteria” on what is pornography, and “one [criterion] will be when someone wears a skirt above the knee”.
However, Ali says there will be some exceptions for places like Bali and Papua:
“Balinese women, for instance, they have unique way of dressing, the upper part of their traditional dress (does not cover their shoulders) but it├óΓé¼Γäós not pornography. They also dance gracefully and it├óΓé¼Γäós not considered pornography. So we have to set criteria of what pornography is.”
The sudden crackdown comes after Indonesia├óΓé¼Γäós parliamentary speaker Marzuki Alie announced he would be drafting a new set of rules to ban female politicians and staff members from wearing mini skirts because “there have been a lot of rape cases and other immoral acts recently” and women’s inappropriate clothes are to blame.
That’s absurd! And a spokeswoman from the National Commission on Violence Against Women, Masruchah agrees, saying:
“Many women [who were] raped happened to wear very conservative clothing. They were raped anyway.”
So if the clothes aren’t the problem, that only leaves one other factor…
What do U think about this ban???
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