The Two-Edged Sharia Sword
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The area covered by Sharia is spreading wide. It is more effective on the lower layers of society but has little impact on the wealthy and the elite.
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Azriana, 43, still vividly remembers her high school days in North Aceh in the early 1990s. There was no requirement for women to wear headscarves then. Like students outside Aceh, Azriana and other female students wore short dresses. "No one had a problem with it back then," she told Tempo in July.
But the situation changed in 1999. Aceh obtained special authorization to fully apply Islamic law or sharia. Qanun Syariah or regulations based on Isl
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