Indonesia leads the way--down the runway
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 12:09AM 
Just another pleasant story (FT) on how Indonesia, much like Turkey, provides a hugely positive example for the rest of the Islamic world. Here the story is on Jakarta's ambition to make itself the fashion capital of Islam.
As the director of Indonesia's Islamic Fashion Consortium puts it:
Our main strength is that we are an Islamic country. We are immediately outstanding. Who can compete with us on in that?
Certainly not crabby old Iran or stick-in-the-mud Saudi Arabia.
Diversity reigns:
"Every single island, every single community has its own type of Islamic dress. There is no one who says: 'No! You have to do it like this'," Ms Hadi [editor-in-chief of Noor, the country's leading Islamic lifestyle magazine] said.
Ooh! You just know how much Osama loves to hear that argument.
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On this general topic, see the recent post at Global Voices, "Indonesia’s fashion bloggers". Per the post, "The top bloggers in Indonesia are fashion and lifestyle bloggers who are mostly young ladies."