Club formed to teach women to be more obedient to husbands

(19 Jun 2011)
1. Wide of launching ceremony of the 'Obedient to Husband' club
2. Mid of bill board reading: (Indonesian/English) "Launching of Obedient to husband club Jakarta, 18 June 2011"
3. Various of club members listening to lectures
4. Pan to the club leader, Gina Puspita, giving speech on podium
5. Mid of Puspita giving speech with a married couple in the foreground.
6. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Gina Puspita, leader of Obedient to Husband club:
"At the same time, the wives should strive to be pious and 100 percent obedient to their husbands in all aspects of life including sex. They will be respected by friend and foe, and will become rich (because of obedience to the husband)."
7. Wide of news conference panel
8. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Gina Puspita, leader of Obedient to Husband club:
"The wife's obedience to the husband must be based on obedience to God. Obey the rules that have been created by God. Therefore, because polygamy is the rule which God made, they (wives) should not reject it."
9. Mid of a man with his wife
10. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Halimah (no last name given), club member:
"At this club, I want to learn more about how to be more obedient to my husband because this can save me in the hereafter."
11. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Tengku Umar Abdurrahman, husband:
"This club is a subtle allusion to wives to be more obedient to God so that we (husbands) do not need to direct them on how to be obedient to us."
12. Various of artists performing on stage
STORYLINE:
A group of married women has set up a club of for wives, aimed at teaching them to be totally obedient to their husbands.
Gina Puspita, the leader of the new club which raised controversy among activists claimed that the club has about 300 members in several Indonesian cities.
The club locally named "Klub Taat Suami" or "Obedient to Husband Club" was launched on Saturday night in a ceremony in the capital Jakarta, attended by about 50 women and their husbands.
"The wives should strive to be pious and 100 percent obedient to their husbands in all aspects of life including sex," Gina Puspita said.
"The wife's obedience to the husband, must be based on obedience to God," she added.
Later in a news conference, Puspita said: "because polygamy is the rule which God made, they (wives) should not reject it".
One member of the club said that learning how to be obedient to her husband, could "save" her.
One husband in attendance, Tengku Umar Abdurrahman, said: "This club is a subtle allusion to wives to be more obedient to God so that we (husbands) do not need to direct them on how to be obedient to us."
Husein Muhammad, a member of the Commission on Women's Rights, said on Sunday that the club, founded under the Malaysian-based Islamic group Global Ikhwan, would not get support in Indonesia.

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