Moral danger

A hair stylist straightening the hair of a customer in a hairdressing salon in Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia. Women's hair styles have become a hot topic for Indonesia's Muslims after calls from some Islamic clerics to have the procedure banned on the grounds it invites moral danger. On Wednesday, the council's Fatwa Commission said it had received a request from a group of clerics linked to a girls' boarding school in East Java to issue a fatwa banning chemical hair straightening, a type of perm treatment known in Indonesia as rebonding.