PPP seeks boarding house regulation

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)