Perhaps more significant is that the ban lasted just a week. And at the start of last week, the rector’s office at the university, the Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta, confirmed that the niqab ban had been rescinded. But it is not an Islamic state, and it has influential Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minorities. While many Muslim women among the country’s 260 million people wear hijabs — the traditional Islamic head scarf that hides the hair and neck — many others do not. However, conservative Islamic groups in Indonesia have set out to change that.

Source: National Post March 20, 2018 16:52 UTC