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I think that women in Indonesia are not getting the freedom to express and believe. Is it ok that women in Indonesia aren’t allowed to believe in what they want? Religion in Indonesia is not something you can choose to believe in. It is a right that women just don’t get.
In Indonesia alone there are 342 women discriminatory regulations. 79 of those are bylaws requiring women to wear the hijab[i]. To give a general idea only 6 states in the United States have average 2 laws requiring both sex’s to not show extreme sexual arousal. It isn’t much a big deal to us for women to cover up completely, but in Indonesia women get severely punished for showing the slightest part of their chest, thigh or butt.
Does it all really make sense though? If Indonesia is barely letting women have their religious rights in the first place, is it right to force them to dress like a religious. Then punish them if they don’t? Personally I think that it makes no sense at all. Especially if women don’t have the right to believe, you being a hypocrite and punishing them for something that you forced them not to do.
Why should I care? Why should I spend my time helping someone in a different place who I will never meet? Well let’s say we help Indonesia, and support the women there. What will happen next? Well hopefully some of the regulations there will get retracted and women in Indonesia won’t be treated as poorly. You should care because these are still people, and when it’s only the women being put down with the men rising up, it’s like your mom telling you because I said so.
Indonesia needs help, more importantly, Indonesia’s women need help.
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[i] hi·jab hiˈjäb/ a head covering worn in public by some Muslim women.
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Bibliography
1: N.p., n.d. Web.
2: "Indonesia: Rights Rollback for Religious Minorities, Women | Human Rights Watch." Indonesia: Rights Rollback for Religious Minorities, Women | Human Rights Watch. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 May 2014.
3: Shears, Richard. "Widow Is Gang-raped as Punishment." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 06 May 2014. Web. 15 May 2014.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/01/21/indonesia-rights-rollback-religious-minorities-women
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/rights-of-female-workers-must-be-protected-minister/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621260/Widow-gang-raped-punishment-having-affair-married-man-Indonesia-caned-public-Sharia-law.html
In Indonesia alone there are 342 women discriminatory regulations. 79 of those are bylaws requiring women to wear the hijab[i]. To give a general idea only 6 states in the United States have average 2 laws requiring both sex’s to not show extreme sexual arousal. It isn’t much a big deal to us for women to cover up completely, but in Indonesia women get severely punished for showing the slightest part of their chest, thigh or butt.
Does it all really make sense though? If Indonesia is barely letting women have their religious rights in the first place, is it right to force them to dress like a religious. Then punish them if they don’t? Personally I think that it makes no sense at all. Especially if women don’t have the right to believe, you being a hypocrite and punishing them for something that you forced them not to do.
Why should I care? Why should I spend my time helping someone in a different place who I will never meet? Well let’s say we help Indonesia, and support the women there. What will happen next? Well hopefully some of the regulations there will get retracted and women in Indonesia won’t be treated as poorly. You should care because these are still people, and when it’s only the women being put down with the men rising up, it’s like your mom telling you because I said so.
Indonesia needs help, more importantly, Indonesia’s women need help.
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[i] hi·jab hiˈjäb/ a head covering worn in public by some Muslim women.
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Bibliography
1: N.p., n.d. Web.
2: "Indonesia: Rights Rollback for Religious Minorities, Women | Human Rights Watch." Indonesia: Rights Rollback for Religious Minorities, Women | Human Rights Watch. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 May 2014.
3: Shears, Richard. "Widow Is Gang-raped as Punishment." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 06 May 2014. Web. 15 May 2014.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/01/21/indonesia-rights-rollback-religious-minorities-women
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/rights-of-female-workers-must-be-protected-minister/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621260/Widow-gang-raped-punishment-having-affair-married-man-Indonesia-caned-public-Sharia-law.html