INDONESIA will ban the mini skirt in a bid to deflect growing dissent over rising prices and government corruption.

The country’s religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali has decreed mini skirts pornographic and says new anti-porn laws will see them banned.



Mr Suryadharma said meetings with “different stakeholders” would be held to “define” pornography.



“However, there must be a set of universal criteria to define something as pornographic, of which one will be when someone wears a skirt above the knee,” he was quoted as saying in The Jakarta Post.



Once the standard on what is and is not pornography was determined, it would be enforced across the country.



Another politician from the ruling Democratic Party announced he would prepare laws banning female MPs and staff members from wearing mini skirts.



“There have been a lot of rape cases and other immoral acts recently and this is because women aren't wearing appropriate clothes”, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.



“You know what men are like. Provocative clothing will make them do things."