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Indonesian Females Increasingly Oppressed by the Hijab

Human Rights Watch study details steady erosion of women’s freedom

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John Berthelsen
Mar 18, 2021
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From Indonesia’s relatively freewheeling days of moderate religious influence, girls and women are coming under increasingly strict imported Arab social and legal demands, forced to cover up and hide under stifling Islamic dress, according to an exhaustive 117-page report by the New York-based NGO Human Rights Watch.

The report, titled ‘I Wanted to Run A…

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