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As reported in the Jakarta Post
Authorities in the Indonesian capital Jakarta have started a crackdown on public minivans, apprehending those with tinted windows that make it difficult to see what was going on inside, the Jakarta Post reported.
The move came after a woman was gang raped earlier this month inside a minivan, a widely used type of public transport, late at night and dumped on a street afterwards.
Scores of women took to the streets wearing colourful miniskirts and tight leggings gathered in central Jakarta on Sunday, outraged by a public official's comments that provocatively dressed women are to blame for sexual assaults.
Jakarta’s governor Fauzi Bowo had said women must not wear revealing clothes to avoid being raped or victimized.
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