Hijab store in Jakarta, Indonesia. yunhap news
Controversy is brewing at a middle school in Indonesia when a teacher cut off a female student’s hair, claiming it was outside the hijab.
According to Antara News Agency on the 29th (local time), on the 23rd, an English teacher with the initials EN at Sukodadi Public Middle School in Ramongan, East Java, Indonesia, called 14 female students.
He pointed out that students did not wear a band-type ciput worn inside the hijab to prevent hair from falling out when wearing the hijab. He then cut off some of the students’ hair with electric clippers.
When the incident became known, human rights groups demanded that the teacher be disciplined.
“This is the most threatening incident in Indonesia,” Andreas Harsono, a researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW) Indonesia, said in a statement. said.
Iliza Saduddin Jamal, a member of the House of Representatives, also pointed out, “Chiput is a fashion, it complements the hijab, and it is not against the law not to wear it. Even if it is for education, this method cannot be justified.”
Harto, the principal of the school, said: “The teacher has been suspended and apologized to the victim’s parents.
In 2021, the Indonesian government issued a ministerial directive to prevent schools from requiring or banning the wearing of clothing with religious symbols, and not mandating the hijab.
However, Indonesia’s Supreme Court reversed the government guidelines, ruling that schools can make hijab compulsory, saying that children under the age of 18 do not have the right to choose school uniforms.
According to a report released last year by HRW, about 150,000 schools in Indonesia’s 24 Muslim-majority provinces require Muslim girls to wear the hijab. Even non-Muslim female students are forced to wear the hijab in conservative Muslim areas such as Aceh and West Sumatra.
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2023-08-30 18:29:25