PPP seeks boarding house regulation

YOGYAKARTA: The United Development Party (PPP) vowed on Saturday to push for a regional regulation which strictly barred students of different sexes from staying in the same boarding house.

Chief of local PPP branch, Muhammad Iqbal, told a media conference here that the party had long seen an obvious trend that boarding house owners were too permissive to accept both male and female students.

"There are many students in town. In the absence of strict regulations, we are afraid their liberal relationship with peers will disrupt our cultural norms," Iqbal said.

According to Iqbal, the branch will also seek a regulation which sets a night curfew for female students' visitors. He said many boarding houses in town had yet to apply the curfew. (44)