REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesian National Police Commission will consider headscarves for policewomen by permitting its female officers to wear headscarves or locally know as jilbab.
"This new rule will accommodate the wearing of headscarves by female police officers, since our society want us to give a chance to Muslim policewomen to wear headscarves," Member of National Police Commission, Hamidah said on Sunday.
The new regulation is needed to avoid further polemic. The new policy is a way of accomodating its female members from all religious backgrounds.
Currently police's dress code does not allow policewomen to wear headscarves. The national police even considered wearing headscarves for policewomen in Aceh as violation.
However, in Article 29 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, the state guarantees the right of all citizens to practise their religions or beliefs. While according to Islam, wearing the headscarf is part of Islamic teachings.
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