Kindergarten dresses children as jihadists for parade in Indonesia
(The Guardian Indonesia)

Manager apologises for independence day march costumes and denies trying to `instil violence´ into childrenA kindergarten in Indonesian has been criticised for dressing girls up in black, Isis-style costumes and replica rifles for an independence day parade, with organisers forced to apologise for the embarrassing gaffe.Photos of the `cultural` parade held in the city of Probolinggo, East Java, on Saturday showed lines of young girls marching on the street wearing niqab-style black veils, carrying cardboard cutouts of guns.On Independence Day yesterday, a video of a schoolboy climbing a flagpole in west Timor went viral on Indonesian social media. Today another video went viral: kindergarteners in black niqab carrying guns joined Independence Day carnival in Probolinggo, East Java #17an #RI73 pic.twitter.com/yN9tdyZwz5 Related: `Indonesia`s horror`: the girl, 15, raped by her brother and jailed for abortion Continue reading...