Women Protest Rape Remark in Indonesia
Nothing illustrates the strains on Indonesian society better than what happened in Jakarta when the city governor, Fauzi Bowo, said last week that women who wear miniskirts in public are inviting rape.
The howls have been heard far and wide, with the governor becoming an object of derision in editorial columns and around water coolers throughout the city.
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