INDONESIA: WOMEN URGE END TO JILBAB BASED DISCRIMINATION.(Brief Article) From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: September 15, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Info-Prod (Middle East) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

According to IINA, in observance of the Jilbab (headscarf worn by a Muslim woman) International Solidarity Day, hundreds of Indonesian Muslim women staged separate protests in two cities against alleged discrimination against them. In Palembang, the capital city of South Sumatra, around 200 women wearing headscarves gathered at the Fountain Circle to demand that the government stop discriminating against jilbab wearers. The protesters comprised activists from at least eight student ...