Slutwalks started after a Toronto cop suggested women could avoid rape by not dressing like sluts. They went way beyond Toronto, but it appears that the women of Jakarta had a more local example for their miniskirted march.
Recently, after reports that a 27-year-old woman had been gang-raped in a taxi van, Jakarta governor Fauzi Bowo declared that women should “wear sensible clothes, don’t wear ‘inviting’ clothes. You can imagine, if [a woman] wears short skirt and sits next to the driver, it could be ‘inviting.'” He said of women on motorbike taxis, “If you… wear short pants or a miniskirt, do not sit like a man, just side saddle. If you side saddle, there will be no problem.”