[The Christian Post] 6 Feb 2009--Sharia-based laws have been passed in more than half of Indonesia’s provinces with support for such Islamic laws expected to grow as the country heads towards its presidential election in July.
More than 50 regencies in 16 of the 32 provinces in Indonesia have passed laws linked to sharia, or Islamic religious law, according to persecution watchdog group Compass Direct News. A regency in Indonesia is one step lower in terms of administrative division than the provincial government.
These sharia inspired laws vary vastly across the regencies and include requiring both Muslim and non-Muslim women to wear headscarves; arresting and then charging women found “loitering” alone on the street after 10 p.m. with prostitution; providing conditions for Quran literacy among schoolchildren; as well as severe punishment for adultery, alcoholism and gambling.
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