a breach of the right of individuals to make choices.
"For days she locked herself in her room and did not want to communicate with her family. She also did not want to eat," Ms Yuliani, who has been advising the student after her father contacted the organisation, told The StraisTimes. Last year, an uproar emerged after a female non-Muslim student in a public high school in Padang, West Sumatra, refused to wear a hijab during a virtual school session.
In 2014, the Ministry of Education issued a regulation stipulating that schools cannot rule or advise students to wear uniforms that mark certain religious identities, nor can they ban students from wearing religious clothing. The KPAI also urged the Yogyakarta government to implement a gubernatorial decree on inclusive education, where no discrimination based on all grounds, including religion, is practised, so that schools serves as"a miniature of the society."