[Image: Three photos featuring young people from Indonesia. The first shows a group of punks being watched over by armed guards. In the second, a person is crying while having their hair cut/combed. The last photo shows several shirtless people with shaved heads crouching down in a small body of water.]

AFP - Indonesian sharia police are “morally rehabilitating” more than 60 young punk rock fans in Aceh province on Sumatra island, saying the youths are tarnishing the province’s image.

Since being arrested at a punk rock concert in the provincial capital Banda Aceh on Saturday night, 59 male and five female punk rock fans have been forced to have their hair cut, bathe in a lake, change clothes and pray.

To make matters worse, the show at which the youths were arrested was organized to raise money for the regions’ orphans. Charming.

This is a country where children as young as five years old can buy cigarettes and legally smoke them, but you can’t be a punk because it morally corrupts you. AWESOME LOGIC, INDONESIA. GO FUCK YOURSELF.

(via sfitzgerald-art)