Indonesia has banned schools from forcing girls to wear headscarves after the case of a Christian pupil pressured to cover up sparked outrage in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.The move was applauded on Friday by rights activists, who say non-Muslim girls have been forced for years to wear a hijab in conservative parts of the country.State schools across the Southeast Asian archipelago of nearly 270 million will face sanctions if they fail to comply with the edict from Education…
