"This is because the police and law enforcement agencies want to avoid violence by the hardliners and let minorities become the victim in the process."
Source/Credit: Hindustan Times
By Dhruba Jyoti Purkait | July 13, 2013
Once known for its verdant beaches, Indonesia of late has acquired a radical hue. This shift came into stark focus recently when the organisers of Miss World pageant bowed down to pressure from Islamic hardliners and scrapped the bikini round from this year's competition to be held in September
in Jakarta.
The episode, coming after Lady Gaga's cancelled tour last year and the disrupted book tour of Muslim-Canadian writer Irshad Manji in Jakarta and Yogyakarta, was again marked by a complete lack of dissent.
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