Long skirt cover-up order in Aceh
The westernmost province of Aceh on Sumatra is the sole upholder of sharia law in the predominantly Muslim, but secular Indonesia. The previous local parliament passed a controversial law in September allowing adulterers to be stoned to death.
Wilayatul Hisbah, the Aceh sharia police who began this year conducting raids on unmarried couples caught together, as well as gamblers and drinkers, yesterday set up road blocks to search cars and buses for women wearing tight trousers.
