Persuasion Techniques

… attached to the roofs.

For the latter method, every Friday from around 9am officers of the Wilayatul Hisbah (WH), usually female ones, go about armed with loudspeakers and loudly remind males that it is Friday and therefore they must perform prayers in a mosque.

Then again at 12.00 another sweep is made, and any straggling men who have failed to duck out of sight are again directed towards the nearest mosque.

However it seems these persuasion techniques only meet with limited …

Islam Lunak

… umum yang tidak disukai (dan mungkin begitu juga dengan kasus seks di toilet), dan polisi agama (Wilayatul Hisbah) Aceh pun juga lebih lunak.

The Economist berpendapat bahwa secara keseluruhan keadaan sudah tidak terlalu buruk, dan hal ini dapat dilihat dari hasil pemilu terakhir, dimana partai-partai "sekuler" (seperti Golkar, PDI-P, dan PD) dengan mudah mengalahkan partai-partai "Islam" (seperti PKB, PPP, PAN, PKS, dan PBB) (walau begitu ada baiknya untuk melihat pendapat masyarakat …

Soft Islamization

… there caused public disgust (as perhaps also did the toilet sex case) and the religious police ( Wilayatul Hisbah ) are now much more tame.

Things are not looking so bad overall, says the Economist, and this can be best seen in the results of the last election, where "secular" parties (defined as Golkar, PDI-P, PD) easily beat "Islamic" parties (defined as PKB, PPP, PAN, PKS, PBB) (although they might want to look at youth trends and check their definition of Islamist vs secular …

Muslim Barbie Doll

Salma, Islamic barbie dolls for Indonesian girls.

In Depok, West Java, Sukmawati Suryaman designs "Salma" (from the Arabic "salamah") dolls, a Muslim variant of the traditional, western, Barbie doll.

The actual dolls are imported from China, while Sukmawati makes the outfits, and by dressing the Salma dolls in Muslim dress , like in jilbab / headscarf and flowing Arab
style …

Comment by dewaratugedeanom: … Aceh-style by the Wilayatul Hisbah or the FPI. “¢ …

Rebecca Soejati Reijman

Singer Rebecca Reijman falls afoul of Islamic law in Aceh.

Singer Rebecca Soejati Reijman, who is from the Netherlands, was performing on stage in Banda Aceh on 26th August in front of 4,000 people in support of the Jakarta-based band "Nidji" when the head covering that she was obliged to wear in the sharia-law province got caught in the wind and fell off, revealing her head, and the hair …

Comment by dewaratugedeanom: … page 9 The Wilayatul Hizbah (shari’a police) in …

Sexy Dangdut

Dangdut dancing and singing in Cianjur for independence day.

The Clerics' Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI)) of Cianjur in West Java has issued a fatwa forbidding on-stage dangdut singing and dancing during celebrations for Indonesian independence day on August 17th. The fatwa firmly makes haram in particular the type of dangdut dancing which involves sexy or erotic movements, or any …

Comment by dewaratugedeanom: … “¢ Join the Wilayatul Hizbah syariah police and …

Tight Clothing

Women university students in tight clothing, or not.

The Syiah Kuala University (Unsyiah) in Aceh will shortly issue a regulation banning the wearing of tight clothing by female students. On 18th June the Rector's assistant, Edi Nur Ilyas, said:

A ban on women students wearing tight clothes will be enforced in stages.

A staged enforcement of the new rules on Muslim clothing was …

Comment by Robert: … or Sharia Police/Wilayatul Hizbah. On a lighter …

Toilet Sex

… Aceh, was arrested in a hotel room along with a woman he is not married to by the sharia police, Wilayatul Hisbah (WH). His case will likely be taken to the Sharia Court eventually.

Puji Wijayanto claims that he has been set up, because in the recent past he has handled a number of large corruption cases in Sabang. gatra

Secondly a case involving a religious policeman falling into temptation. 33 year old Raihanuddin Lubis, a patrolman of the Wilayatul Hisbah/WH employed by the …

Boy & Girl Caned

… subject to a citizens' arrest by local people, and then handed over to the religious police, Wilayatul Hisbah, and they were then charged with unlawful proximity between an unmarried male and female.

They were later tried and found guilty of violating article 22 of Qanun (sharia law) No.14/2003 concerning sexual crimes.

On 20th April 2007 the two young people were each given four strokes of a rattan cane in the grounds of the Tungkop mosque in the Darussalam district of Aceh Besar …

Comment by Cukurungan: … these people (Wilayatul Hisbah) and the public mob …

Friday Muslim Prayers

… Aceh goes on not all are happy with the performance of the Sharia Office and the religious police, Wilayatul Hisbah (WH), the bodies entrusted with seeing that the Acehnese perform their religious obligations.

Somebody called Lia, a resident of Banda Aceh, complains that sharia enforcement agencies are not taking action against the large number of men in the province who fail to do their Friday prayers in the mosque, or Jumatan. Lia says that the Dinas Syariat Islam and the WH are overly …

Violence Against Women

… women, and of the application of Islamic law in Aceh as carried out by the religious police ( wilayatul hisbah ), referencing the practice of caning and "kawin cina buta", the latter being a complicated affair of marrying, divorcing, then remarrying the same person, said to be common in Aceh refugee camps. detik komnasperempuan

Sharia Law Courts

… and prosecutors still involved, as well as the police.

There are sharia police, or Wilayatul Hisbah, but their job is only to give advice, not to arrest and interrogate.

UnIslamic Behaviour

… a chaperone or an acceptable reason are the main targets of the campaign, says sharia police ( Wilayatul Hisbah, WH) spokesman Wirzaini Usman. Some success has already been met with:

Since the launch of the operation on the 20th we have arrested nine people for breaking Islamic law.

Although the offenders could have faced flogging with a rattan cane leniency has so far been shown and they have been let off with a warning.

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Hand Amputation

… newspaper that was paid for by the agency responsible for implementing Islamic sharia law, the Wilayatul Hisbah. The advertisement invited submissions and comments on the proposed law so it could be revised before being handed over to the local parliament for review.

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February 28th 2007.

The law is still in process and it is expected to be completed by the March. Al Yasa Abubakar, the head of the sharia office, says he hopes the law will lead to all forms of theft …

Comment by Dragonwall: … sharia law, the Wilayatul Hisbah. Is this country …

Peeping Toms

… bedroom windows at the World Food Programme headquarters in Banda Aceh.

The police, called Wilayatul Hisbah (WH), who specialise in seeking out immoral behaviour, raided the WFP headquarters on August 17th, Indonesian independence day, reports say. Thirty men, both WH officers and regular policemen, forced their way into the compound of the World Food Programme (WFP) at around 11pm, in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, despite protests from UN guards.

While wandering around the …

Aceh as the Base

… and not big corruptors? Why is the Indonesian military in Aceh not subject to sharia? The wilayatul hisbah, the religious police, do not dare accost soldiers kissing their girlfriends on the beach, for example, and incomers from Jakarta such as the PKS activists do not care about such things.

He concludes by saying, somewhat ominously, that the PKS, et al intend to use Aceh as the base from which to re-Islamise the nation and see sharia law applied nationally, or at least in some …

Adultery & Wilayatul Hisbah

… most interest in the report is its claim that women and the poor are the main targets of the WH, wilayatul hisbah, or religious police. From the Executive Summary:

The zeal shown by the vice and virtue patrol [WH] in enforcing the regulations [against alcohol, gambling and illicit sex] has encouraged a report-on-your-neighbour process and a kind of moral vigilantism. Women and the poor have become the primary targets of enforcement. There is no indication that implementation of Shari'a …

Religious Freedom Report

… the province to establish and implement sharia law. In 2001, sharia police, locally know as Wilayatul Hisbah, were set up to enforce religious norms. Initially, these "police" were often confined to mosques and other religious institutions. Since the peace agreement was signed, however, sharia police have become more visible. There are reports of sharia police issuing fines and meting out other punishments to Muslims found gambling or consuming alcohol, unmarried couples found …

The Trouble With Syariah

… dramatically increased due to people's fear of another tsunami.

Many Acehnese were demanding Wilayatul Hisbah (WH, the religious police) should redouble their effort to supervise people applying syariah. Everyone who was considered to acting against the law must be punished without mercy. Gambling, adultery, stealing have to be eliminated. Whipping shows in front of public which already taken place many times in cases of gambling and adultery has to be done more often. "We need strong …

Muslim Groups Rally for Anti-Porn Bill

Muslim groups staged rallies yesterday at the Tangerang local council and the administration office in support of the pornography bill , which is being deliberated by the House of Representatives.

The Indonesian Hisbullah Front, Lembaga Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia and Majelis Taklim Larangan, said the bill could save the younger generation from moral degeneration.

Our intentions are …

Comment by SuDjoko: … syariat police (wilayatul hisbah), the nightmares on …