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Saudi telah menggantung sistem elektronik untuk memberitahu penjaga lelaki
tentang berlepas atau ketibaan saudara-saudara perempuan mereka. Wanita
tempatan mengadu sistem itu memalukan dan mencadangkan memperkenalkan satu yang
sama untuk suami mereka.
“Sistem
ini telah digantung kerana beberapa pemerhatian dan ia akan menjalani pindaan,”
kata jurucakap Jabatan Pasport, Lt Kol Ahmad Al-Laheedan, berkata, yang
menunjukkan bahawa kaedah-kaedah lama boleh dirombak, dan beberapa pilihan baru
ditambah.
Di bawah
sistem semasa, SMS dihantar kepada penjaga lelaki setiap kali keluarga
perem-puan atau kanak-kanak melintasi sempadan kerajaan.
“Pada
masa lalu, sistem itu termasuk semua nama-nama yang telah didaftarkan. Walau
bagaimanapun, dalam fasa seterusnya, ia akan menjadi pilihan. Pindaan berusaha
untuk meningkatkan sistem untuk menjadikannya lebih baik dan memenuhi semua
objektif,”" kata Al- Laheedan .
Beberapa
wanita Arab berhujah bahawa proses pemberitahuan tersebut tidak pernah diperkenalkan
di tempat pertama, kerana ia adalah “memalukan untuk wanita” dan meno-lak mereka
ke dalam kategori yang sama seperti kanak-kanak.
“Wanita
seperti saya yang mungkin mempunyai kebenaran dibuka dari penjaga mereka
melakukan perjalanan mencari isu kemiskinan tidak masuk akal kerana penjaga
kami diberitahu setiap langkah kita seolah-olah kita adalah kanak-kanak yang
perlu terikat untuk menjadi orang dewasa yang bertanggungjawab,” kolumnis Arab
dan Penolong Profesor Linguistik Gunaan di King Saud bin Abdulaziz Universiti
Sains Kesihatan, Sabria S. Jawhar, memberitahu Arab News.
“Saya
berharap ini adalah satu langkah ke arah membatalkan keseluruhan sistem. Kita
dilahirkan Islam dan kita tahu prinsip-prinsip agama kita. Tidak perlu untuk sesiapa
sahaja, termasuk kerajaan, untuk memantau tingkah laku kita,” tegas beliau.
Editor
urusan OIC Journal (Pertubuhan Kerjasama Islam) juga telah menyokong langkah
untuk membatalkan sistem itu, berkata ia adalah tidak menghormati hak-hak
wanita.
“Semua
wanita Arab perjalanan ke luar negara dengan kebenaran ibu bapa atau suami
mereka. Sistem ini memberi gambaran bahawa wanita memerlukan pemantauan
berte-rusan. Ia juga menunjukkan bahawa wanita tidak boleh dipercayai,” kata
Maha Akeel.
Saudi women celebrate: Monitoring system of
cross-border movements suspended . . .
Saudi
Arabia has suspended an electronic system to notify male guardians about the
departure or arrival of their female relatives. Local women complained the
system was humiliating and suggested introducing a similar one for their
husbands.
"The
system has been suspended due to some observations and it will undergo
amendment," spokesperson of the Passports Department, Lt. Col. Ahmad
Al-Laheedan, said, indicating that the old rules could be revamped, and some
new options added.
Under
the current system, an SMS is sent to the male guardian each time his female
family member or a child crosses the Kingdom’s border.
"In
the past, the system included all the names that were registered. However, in
the next phase, it will be optional. The amendments seek to enhance the system
to make it better and fulfill all its objectives," Al-Laheedan said.
A number
of Saudi women argue that the notification process should have never been
introduced in the first place, because it is "humiliating for women"
and pushes them into the same category as children.
"Women
like myself who may have open permission from their guardian to travel find the
issue particularly ridiculous because our guardians are notified of our every
move as if we are children that need to be tethered to become responsible
adults," a Saudi columnist and Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics
at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Sabria S. Jawhar,
told Arab News.
"I
hope this is a step toward canceling the whole system. We are born Muslim and
we know the principles of our religion. There is no need for anyone, including
the government, to monitor our behavior," she stressed.
A
managing editor of the OIC Journal (The Organization of Islamic Cooperation)
has also supported the move to cancel the system, saying it was disrespectful
of women's rights.
"All
Saudi women travel abroad with the permission of their parents or husbands. The
system gives the impression that women require constant monitoring. It also
shows that women cannot be trusted," Maha Akeel said.
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Beberapa
Saudi telah meluluskan sistem, bagaimanapun, berkata ia benar-benar mem-bantu
keluarga dengan kesedaran pergerakan merentas sempadan tanggungan mereka.
“Tanpa
sistem tersebut, seorang wanita atau kanak-kanak akan bebas untuk datang dan
pergi dan perjalanan ke luar negara tanpa dia atau keluarganya mengetahui
menge-nainya,” kata seorang penulis blog
Arab, yang dipetik oleh arabnews.com. “Jika itu berlaku, kita akan mendapati
banyak daripada wanita dan kanak-kanak pergi ke luar negara tanpa pengetahuan
kita kita,” katanya.
Jika
objektif utama sistem pemberitahuan itu adalah semestinya untuk menyediakan
perkhidmatan yang berguna untuk semua ahli keluarga, lelaki perlu juga “menyertai
kelab ini,” yang disyorkan wanita Arab.
“Saya
yakin bahawa banyak masalah akan dapat diselesaikan jika wanita menyedari
pergerakan suami mereka merentasi sempadan juga,” Gulfnews.com dipetik satu
blogger, Salwa, sebagai berkata. “Malah, wanita akan mendapat manfaat daripada
sistem yang lebih daripada lelaki. Oleh itu, sila termasuk mereka dan memberi
amaran kepada isteri-isteri mereka tentang berlepas antarabangsa dan ketibaan
mereka,” tambah beliau.
Setiap
wanita dewasa di Arab Saudi perlu mempunyai saudara lelaki rapat sebagai ‘penjaga’
dia, yang diberi kuasa untuk membuat keputusan penting bagi pihak beliau,
termasuk hak untuk perjalanan, untuk memulakan perniagaan, dan belajar di
universiti. Wanita Arab adalah dilarang daripada memandu, dan dikehendaki untuk
menutup diri mereka di khalayak ramai, di kalangan sekatan2 yang lain.
Sebagai
peraturan, wanita di dalam kerajaan ultra-konservatif Arab Saudi mengekalkan
tempat yang tradisional di dalam rumah tangga. Banyak isu-isu dalam kehidupan
tenang mereka ketat yang dikawal selia oleh undang-undang Syariah, berasal dari
Al-Quran.
Awal
bulan ini firma undang-undang wanita pertama di negara ini telah membuka pintu
untuk melindungi hak-hak wanita di Arab Saudi. Langkah itu datang 2 bulan
selepas pengasas syarikat, bersama-sama dengan 3 peguam wanita yang lain, telah
diberikan lesen untuk mengamalkan undang-undang di dalam kerajaan tradisional
patriarki.
Peguam
wanita pertama Arab, Bayan Mahmoud Al Zahran, yang ditubuhkan beliau semua-wanita
firma undang-undang di Jeddah, berkata beliau akan berjuang untuk hak-hak
wanita Arab dan berkaitan kes wanita kepada mahkamah, satu tugas yang
rakan-rakan lelaki dia tidak boleh mengendalikan pada masanya.
A number
of Saudis have approved the system, however, saying it really helped families
with awareness of the cross-border movements of their dependents.
"Without
such a system, a woman or a child would be free to come and go and travel
abroad without her or his family knowing about it," one Saudi blogger
said, quoted by arabnews.com. "If such is the case, we will find many of
our women and children going abroad without our knowledge," he pointed
out.
If the
main objective of the notification system is indeed to provide a useful service
for all members of the families, men should also "join the club,"
Saudi women suggested.
"I
am sure that many problems will be solved if women were aware of their
husbands’ cross-border movements as well," Gulfnews.com quoted one
blogger, Salwa, as saying. "In fact, women would benefit from the system
much more than men. So please include them and alert their wives about their
international departures and arrivals," she added.
Every
adult woman in Saudi Arabia is required to have a close male relative as her
‘guardian’, authorized to make key decisions on her behalf, including the right
to travel, to start a business, and study at university. Saudi women are
prohibited from driving, and are required to cover themselves in public, among
other restrictions.
As a
rule, women in the ultra-conservative Kingdom of Saudi Arabia maintain a
traditional place inside the household. Many issues in their quiet lives are
strictly regulated by Sharia law, derived from the Koran.
Earlier
this month the country’s first female law firm has opened its doors to protect
women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. The move came two months after the company's
founder, along with three other female lawyers, were granted licenses to
practice law in the traditionally patriarchal kingdom.
The
first female Saudi lawyer, Bayan
Mahmoud Al Zahran, who set up her all-woman law firm in Jeddah, said she
would fight for the rights of Saudi women and relate women’s cases to the
court, a task which her male counterparts cannot handle at times.
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