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Aceh Governor Claims Punk ‘Re-Eduction’ Not Human Rights Issue
December 21, 2011

Arrested punk fans participate in a drill during the so-called ‘moral training’ at a police school on Tuesday in Aceh. A total of 65 punks were arrested on Dec. 10 and sent there for lifestyle and spiritual guidance. EPA Photo Arrested punk fans participate in a drill during the so-called ‘moral training’ at a police school on Tuesday in Aceh. A total of 65 punks were arrested on Dec. 10 and sent there for lifestyle and spiritual guidance. EPA Photo
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DrDez
6:29am Dec 28, 2011

do the people in the picture look aged as school kids??? nope

DrDez
11:27am Dec 25, 2011

abutton

Correct - its duplicity is astonishing much like the religion itself and the majority of its practicianers we see here

I can imagine an Indonesian Declaration stating 'it is unlawful to abuse, steal, attack, oppress, arrest or other activity unless you can pay the judge/police/prosecutor...'

The CDHRI was born from a desire to protect Muslims from other Muslims and it fails at local, national and international level.. I bet you a cold beer that 95% of Indonesian Muslims do not even know of its existence despite being the single most important Islamic document of the last several hundred years

abutton
7:49pm Dec 24, 2011

DrDez,

The CDHRI still has enormous problems. For one, it emphasises the equality of men and women. I think you would agree that almost no Muslim nation actually practice this (given that the CDHRI is the Muslim response to the UNDHR).

Then you have the belief that Sharia is the absolute truth.

Article 10 - "Islam is the religion of true unspoiled nature. It is prohibited to exercise any form of pressure on man or to exploit his poverty or ignorance in order to force him to change his religion to another religion or to atheism."

Article 22a - Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Shari'ah.

The governor and police chief would have an easy time justifying their actions with the latter two. Using Sharia instead of, say, common sense is futile.

It's about time Asia gets its own regional human rights court.

DrDez
11:23am Dec 24, 2011

For those Muslims siding with this because its a UN enforced 'rule' I refer you to The 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) which states in really unambiguous terms why this action is a violation of Islamic Human Rights irrespective of the UN Charter - quote 1

"discrimination on the basis of race, colour, language, belief, sex, religion, political affiliation, social status or other considerations is forbidden" it goes on to say - quote 2 'The Declaration protects each individual from arbitrary arrest, torture, maltreatment and/or indignity'

The 1990 Charter is based totally on Shariah Law

There is no excuse and those supporting it are doing so against the rulings of the highest Islamic bodies - It is simple inhuman and unIslamic....

Kampung - spot on, but its sad how all the would be moral bandits jump aboard and shout hate hate hate - says a lot about the lack of understanding of their own religion really

KampungHighlander
1:12pm Dec 21, 2011

This whole crackdown is just an effort by Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf to distract people from the fact he allegedly approved a permit for an palm oil plantation inside a protected peat forest. The Punks will eventually go free and the Governor will eventually be the one sent for re-education.

Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf on Tuesday defended the move by police in his province to detain a group of punk music fans for lifestyle and moral teaching, describing the action as a form of local government attention and not a human rights violation.

Police arrested 64 punks earlier this month during a raid on a charity music concert in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh. The punks were then sent to a police facility outside of the capital for days of re-education, which has included the shaving of their hair as well as military-like discipline training.

Authorities there said the punks were engaging in a lifestyle that ran contrary to the Shariah law in Aceh.

Irwandi, who was speaking to journalists at the State Palace in Jakarta, said Aceh was home to some 700 punks who often lived on the streets or in parks, lacking jobs or an education, whether secular or religious.

“Though it is their right, the government should also think about their future,” he said. “Can they just be punks while they’re young? What if they fail to get a job later on? What will become of them then?”

He said police officers in Aceh were providing guidance courses for the detained punks.

After the re-education period, he added, the police would help the punks find appropriate work opportunities or give them educational scholarships to continue with school.

“They [the punks] aren’t being treated this way because they violated the dress code — Islam does not prohibit people from dressing like punks,” Irwandi said. “People are linking this [re-education] with the Shariah law in Aceh, but in reality there is no connection.”

He said police might have acted against the punks because they allegedly provided inaccurate information when they were applying for a permit for their charity concert. Some of the punks, he added, might have been using drugs.

Irwandi dismissed various protests against the police action, including some overseas.

“What does the rest of the world have to do with this?” he said. “No country allows people to violate human rights, but we should not become slaves to the values of outsiders.”