Level III Substantive Work

This essay evaluates the issue of mandatory hijab dress codes in Indonesia through the lens of human rights, ethics, and Asian contexts. Using a variety of different perspectives, I argue that dress code regulations in Indonesia that force Indonesian women and girls to veil in the Islamic tradition are unethical because they violate individual religious freedom as defined by international human rights treaties, impose on philosophical ideas of religion as an individual innermost experience, contradict Islamic values of religious toleration, and harm Indonesian women and girls. All women and girls should have the choice of whether to veil. It should be their choice and their choice alone.

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