Indonesia's social affairs minister has called for doorless dormitories at colleges so students can be effectively monitored in their rooms. Photo: ReutersIndonesian students and activists said on Wednesday that a minister's suggestion to remove doors at college dormitories to prevent sexual promiscuity would infringe privacy and compromise security. Indonesian social affairs minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa said she was inspired by her visit to the doorless dormitories of a "very prestigious" university, where the activities of students in their rooms can be effectively monitored. "There are no more worries about the possibility of contact between men and men, and women and women," Parawansa told reporters. "Yet the state, for reasons of morality, wants to smash through that door and make the behaviour and consciousness of individuals uniform."

Source: Otago Daily Times November 02, 2016 06:55 UTC