"They should not mix on stage wearing indecent clothes and make a lot of jumps ... This is Aceh province wherein the Islamic sharia is applied, so people must adjust to it."
Sharia Alert. "Pop group falls foul of stricter religious climate in Aceh," from The Age:
As in the rest of the world, Indonesian pop songs are about romance, but at concerts in Aceh province boys and girls better not want to hold hands and performers are warned against "erotic" jumping during songs.
As Aceh slowly recovers from the tsunami and decades of secessionist conflict, its youth is receiving a new battering from the forces of fundamentalism.
Interesting choice of words.
Last weekend a music festival began in Banda Aceh, featuring one of the nation's most popular bands, Nidji. The event ended in chaos with Nidji's six members sheltering from mobs in a police station before fleeing the province.
Radical Muslims had complained the festival had encouraged promiscuity and breached sharia (Islamic law) by failing to segregate the audience by gender.
Police closed the festival after one night at the request of the Banda Aceh Ulema Council, the provincial capital's leading religious authority.
Future concerts will face even tougher sanctions, council head Bardad told The Age yesterday. Not only must audiences be strictly segregated, but male and female band members cannot perform together.
"They should not mix on stage wearing indecent clothes and make a lot of jumps," he said. "This is Aceh province wherein the Islamic sharia is applied, so people must adjust to it."
A fatwa (religious decision) covering entertainment activities must be enforced across the province, Mr Bardad said. "According to the fatwa it is not only the spectators that should not mix between opposite sexes but the performers themselves."
It was not natural for unmarried couples to associate in public, he said.
Nidji's manager, Agung Febryanto, said the cancellation was a lost opportunity and the band had planned to adjust its performance to respect Aceh's culture. "We would not do a lot of jumps on stage, we would be more polite and we would engage in conversations with Islamic nuance with the fans," Mr Febryanto said. "But, well, this is what we got."
The band spent one night at the local police headquarters, as no hotels would accommodate them due to fear of fundamentalist mobs.
UPDATE: More on what set off the mobs, from Indonesia Matters (with thanks to Shiva):
Singer Rebecca Soejati Reijman, who is from the Netherlands, was performing on stage in Banda Aceh on 26th August in front of 4,000 people in support of the Jakarta-based band “Nidji” when the head covering that she was obliged to wear in the sharia-law province got caught in the wind and fell off, revealing her head, and the hair on top of it.
Because of this she had to leave the stage and the concert ended abruptly.
Like a brother, Indonesia follows Malaysia down the path of total destruction. When one does something, the other one soon follows as I was told by a Chinese student from Malaysia. And look, Malaysia successfully makes a prominent western musician adhere to Sharia and Indonesia says "Good idea, I'll do that too."
It is not a coincidence that Aceh, on the western tip of Sumatra, is the closest Indonesian territory to Malaysia. Nor it is a coincidence that Sumatra was the first part of Indonesia to fall to Islam when Hindu king Parameswara converted to Islam. Hence it was only a matter of time that this would occur there.
Won't be long until all of Indonesia becomes like this. Therefore, one can only hope that Hindu Bali and the Christians found in places such as the Moluccas and Sulawesi recieve enough assistance to weather the storm.
"They should not... make a lot of jumps."
The wisdom of Islam.
Or is it whizz dumb?
Marisol
I guess you didnt bother to find out the real story
HERE IS THE CORRECT STORY
Singer Rebecca Soejati Reijman, who is from the Netherlands, was performing on stage in Banda Aceh on 26th August in front of 4,000 people in support of the Jakarta-based band “Nidji” when the head covering that she was obliged to wear in the sharia-law province got caught in the wind and fell off, revealing her head, and the hair on top of it.
Because of this she had to leave the stage and the concert ended abruptly.
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/09/tazir-crime.html
Like a brother, Indonesia follows Malaysia down the path of total destruction.
Yeah,
And it doesnt help when we have dimwits like Gwen Stefani
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/08/visit-malaysia-2007-pt-2.html
I guess they need more relief money to see our tolerance .
As I settle into middle age, well read and well travelled, I have yet to experience "erotic" jumping.....could someboby please enlighten me? (No need to be graphic!)
"We would not do a lot of jumps on stage,..."
Quite right too. Jumping is a sign of Satan.
That's a pretty harsh accusation, I think. This was the only story about the incident that I was able to turn up out of my own efforts yesterday evening; I found it when actively searching for articles having to do with Sharia law.
Any major additions that commenters locate are always much appreciated, and when significant enough, are added as an update to the original posting... as is the case with this one.
So a woman's headscarf slipped off, revealing her head and hair, and the crowd went insane?
Or did the sharia police jump (non-erotically) onto the stage and drag the performers off to jail, prompting the crowd to go insane?
This Islamic purity causes a lot of people to lose their heads...
Careful, Marisol. You're dangerously close to being categorized as one of "them", a closet Muslim, or worse, one of those unpatriotic treasonous traitors, a.k.a, a Democrat. Outrageous! Thirty lashes with a wet noodle for you.
Why would any band travel to Aceh to perform? Forget about "erotic jumping", isn't music banned by pure sharia?
Obviously, this must be the enlightened moderate sharia, since music is still allowed, as long as the audience and band are each segregated by gender, and the women cover their heads, and they don't jump.
There is no fun is Islam - Ayatollah Komeni
No singing without your head scarf!
It's not in the Qur'an, but then neither is jumping.
grobari-
"erotic jumping"?
A "style" made fun of on the U.S. tv show "My Name Is Earl", with a buxon lass bouncing to the tune of the hip-gop (no kidding) song: "Jump, Jump"- VIZ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeUY33FYQUY
Posted by: MarisolJW
That's a pretty harsh accusation, I think.
Sorry I was a bit harsh, on this one. I forgot that you do not have first hand knowledge of Indo pop musik.
Nidji are to middle of the road to cause any problems.
Well! there where islamofascists at the concert who where looking for an excuse to make problems, and the wind(will of allah)dislodged the head covering, the islamos took the chance
Indonesia is in for a good dose of Rock n Roll. Let's applaud the day when female rock singers purposely tear off the headpiece and the crowd goes wild and the Allah police are swarmed...Kinda like Altamont in reverse...I've always said Rock n Roll was holy from the first day I saw Elvis wiggle his hips. You can't keep people in darkness when technology is shining the light of Freedom to all the world. It's happening in Iran also in the underground of the Islamic tyranny.
I think Jim Morrison is re-incarnating himself for one last show in Indonesia.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Some of the world’s top pop stars are facing growing pressure to keep skimpy outfits and steamy dance moves off the stage during their concerts in Muslim-majority Malaysia, event organizers said Wednesday, citing protests by conservative Islamic critics who believe such Western performers can corrupt youths.
Gwen Stefani made what she called “a major sacrifice” by wearing clothes that revealed little at a Kuala Lumpur performance Tuesday. Muslim students and political activists had called for her concert to be scrapped because of her sexy reputation.
Promoters have announced that Beyonce is scheduled to perform Nov. 1 in this Southeast Asian country
Can Beyonce Really Make It To Malaysia?
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/09/no-tits-for-kuala-lumpur.html
Will this stupidity get any push back in Indonesia? Or is this the future?
Does anyone else think that these bass-ackward countries should have stayed under the protection of the British Empire?????????
Well Islam is like all other fundamentalist religions, cults, or dictatorial philosophies(Communism, Nazism, ect.) in wanting to control the dress, music, dance, words, thoughts, media & lives of their followers! Reminds me of the Baptist, Methodists and Holy Roller Churches in the Southern U.S.A.in the 1950's condemning Blues, Rock & Roll, Rhythm & Blues and public dances as the "Devil's" music and actions!
The kids and creative people of this world will always find a way around their censorship and narrow-mined bigotry!
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This world is getting sillier by the minute.
If islam had its way this world would be such a miserable place with ordinary folk working only for the good of the mullahs and imams.
These same mullahs and imams would be using the females, young and old, of the species when and where they wanted for their own sexual gratification. They would be using young boys too because we should be aware that though they say they hate homosexuality they practise it pretty often.
One Arab said to me that 'women are for breeding, boys are for fun.
Nobody would be allowed to laugh or sing or dance or be essentially human.
Take this to the "Nth. degree" and humanity will slide back into the primordial soup, which is where many islamists should be now.
They are not taking my world down without a fight.
....Democrats are better than Muslims...but not by much....Democrats want to take all your money and to make you subserviant to the Government...Muslims will not allow you to have money and want to make subserviant to some crazed, bearded, fingerpointing Islamic cleric....
.......see, there is a small difference....