M

strong>March 21, p7

Bieureun regency in Aceh has banned the employment of openly transgender people at beauty parlors, expressing concern about the influence of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community on the youth.

The ban was issued through a letter from the regency'€™s sharia agency to the owners of beauty parlors, asking them not to employ LGBT people or face revocation of their business permits.

'€œIt is a call to LGBT people and the beauty parlors'€™ owners,'€ agency head Jufliwan said on Friday.

Your comments:

I suggest that every single beauty shop in Aceh close for a month so the middle class and wealthy can start complaining.

'€œ'€˜The Home Ministry could cancel such regulations that conflict with higher regulations,'€™ Sandra said.'€ But, they do nothing because they are too weak and lazy to enforce even the basic laws of the nation.

Replace all government employees who refuse to uphold the Constitution. Raid Aceh and force them to follow the Constitution. They may follow their own rules but none of those rules are allowed to supersede Indonesian laws.

It'€™s time to put your foot down, Indonesian government, or get out and let others do the job you refuse to do.

Xsimaging

The problem is with the LGBT people themselves '€” conversion! Change religion, migrate to another part of the nation or the world!

Thailand is considered the most '€œtolerant'€ country where such people are treated as people; they are human beings!

Why continue to be loyal to a religion that obviously targets you for something that you'€™re born with? My acquaintances say that the holy Koran mentions '€œmen'€ and '€œwomen'€ and nothing in between, so he has a right to bully them, beat them up or even kill them!

There'€™s no sin! These people have no right to exist, he says!

Laws and regulations and government action won'€™t help, this is the true face of Islam that'€™s completely bad!

Pauloh

I see the LGBT community in Indonesia as a group that could easily ask for asylum in other countries due to being politically suppressed and threatened by the current government and religious leaders.

XS

This is completely consistent with sharia law, which predates any concept of human rights.

Abdul Fardji

Agree or not with their behavior, depriving someone of their right to work and earn an income is a serious violation of human rights.

It'€™s time the government stood up and said enough is enough in Aceh and protected the rights of its citizens.

Jakfan

It does really resemble the way the Jews before World War II were restricted in Germany, Austria and Italy, before they started to move them to ghettos and then further to be '€œprocessed'€ for the final solution.

Gordon Freeman