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Article: Muslim women wearing the trousers.
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- November 5, 2009
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By Dr Terry Lacey*
The West Aceh Regent Ramli M.S, based in Meulaboh, has issued a regulation that women found wearing tight trousers such as jeans will have them cut by sharia police and forced to wear loose-fitting attire as of January 1st 2010. (The Jakarta Post 28.10.09). He will also attempt to enforce that vendors cannot sell jeans or slacks.
Ladies can, of course, can still wear jeans and slacks in other regencies or provinces, which could necessitate a ring of religious police road-blocks around the regency, with changing rooms at twenty-four hour border gates.
It is not clear if these restrictions apply to persons of uncertain gender ...