Thread: Yesterday Brothel - Today? ... Sharia-compliant hotel

Illegal brothel Alexis closed, Jakarta Governor urges workers to find jobs in Sharia-compliant hotels




At the reception desk of a Sharia hotel in Jakarta, religion is on show.
Guests are checked in by young women wearing matching purple jilbabs that fall across the shoulders of their black jackets.

Key points:

• In Jakarta Sharia hotels are on the rise and they are free to refuse service to unmarried couples
• This week Governor Anies Basdewan fulfilled his campaign promise to close a notorious brothel
• Former employees are being encouraged to work in Sharia hotels

There is a collection box for the local mosque in a corner of the lobby, and the hotel's mission statement is fastened to an adjacent wall,
making it clear this is a "halal hotel".

The front desk staff of the Hotel Sofyan are trained to catch out any couples who look like breaching the hotel's adherence to sharia law.

"If they are not married, they cannot stay here," explains Asep, one of the front desk staff.

Sharia is the Islamic religious code that mandates — among other things — modest clothing and behaviour.

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