To park or not to… A signage was seen on Nurul Huda Mosque's parking lot, H. Nawi street, South Jakarta (04/11) (“Silahkan parkir di area masjid asalkan: paha tertutup”—feel free to park in the mosque area, requirement: covered thighs). Mosque was originally invented as a public space, where anyone could carry on doing her/his own activities. Religion hitched the ride of the everyday in order to assimilate. It was then. “Privately owned public space”, a subject that is gaining popularity in media discourse today, has just shown another form of its implementation here. Maybe the arch enemy of equality is not only big corporations, as violently stated by the Occupy Wall Street movement, but every established institutions which always have the underlying agenda to protect their own members. Religion, as known today, is surely one of them. Annisa Hadju Mahendra | December 2011

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