A women-only train in Jakarta, aimed at lowering the risk of sexual harassment
As a result of the documentary Femme de la Rue, the problem of women being harrassed and sexually assaulted on the streets has been receiving a lot of attention in the Netherlands and Belgium, recently. It appears to be a bigger problem than many had thought, and a lot of analyses point to religious and cultural reasons for explanation: islamic immigrants, for instance, are used to the idea of only veiled women being honorable, so the other ones are fair game – that’s the argument. Similar, but more intense horror stories are coming out of Cairo.
So what’s it like in the country with the biggest islamic population in the world?
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