REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PONTIANAK -- Some 100 policewomen In West Kalimantan Province wear hijabs following the Police Headquarters' green light for female police officers to cover their heads.

"Of 400 policewomen working in West Kalimantan Police, 100 wear hijabs after we received an official letter from the Police Headquarters allowing them to wear hijabs," spokesman of the West Kalimantan Police, adjunct senior commissioner Nowo Winarti said here, Sunday (19/4).

The police headquarters recently also held a video conference demonstrating how to wear hijabs for policewomen.

In March 2015, Indonesia's National Police officially issued a regulation allowing female police officer to wear the Islamic hijab (heads craft) as a part of their uniform.

"On Wednesday, March 25, a National Police chief decree was issued that was signed by acting police chief Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti. The decree describes the changes to the 2005 decree on police uniforms, adding regulations on official female wear for those who want to wear the hijab," National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said on March 26, 2015.

So far hijabs were worn by women police just in Aceh Darussalam, the only province which applies sharia Islamic laws in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world.

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