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Student dress code 


Once again another mayor of a town decrees that all female high school students 
in the town should wear long skirts. There are a number of compelling reasons 
why such a decree by a regional official should be rejected outright.

Student dress code should not be determined by a town mayor. If any mayor who 
is so inclined can willy-nilly impose his will, ideas and standard of morality, 
where will it all end? The female students of different towns will be dressed 
in a manner dependent on the whim of the local mayor. 

Arif Sirajuddin believes that a male's unwanted attention and immorality of 
young women are determined by the length of a skirt. In civilized societies 
females wearing modern, modest and practical clothes do not attract unwanted 
attention from the opposite sex. Furthermore long skirts have no bearing 
whatsoever on the morality or lack thereof of the wearers. 

It is truly tragic that many a man puts the blame of immorality, sexual 
permissiveness and lewdness on the female. These men never even think that 
perhaps the menfolk actually are the ones that need to learn to control their 
behavior and be respectful to women. 

It is never acceptable to harass, even to leer at or let alone attack women 
just because they wear garments that are not to the liking of the oversexed 
men. Parents, teachers and religious leaders must instill this truism in their 
charges. The head of the local high school principals association, Saleh 
Rugaya, even goes so far as stating that long skirts will reduce crime rates 
and sexual harassment. (I'm in agreement that students wearing long skirts are 
not likely to commit petty crimes because they can hardly avoid capture!). 

Local representative of the Department of Education, Muhammad Asmin, states 
that the policy is to apply to all secondary schools, state-run and private, 
Islamic as well as non-Islamic. One can't help thinking that the real 
motivation behind this absurd ruling (just like another mayor's ruling that 
elementary school pupils cannot attend secondary schools unless they can read 
the Koran) is the forced imposition of Islamic ideals on non-Muslims. 

It is high time the central government stops the introduction of bylaws and 
regulations that are absurd, impractical, prejudicial to non-Muslims and 
definitely contrary to the laws of the land, including the Indonesian 
Constitution. 

PAUL E. RANTAU 
Singapore


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