1 Who wears the Hijab? Predictors of Veiling in Greater Jakarta Ariane Utomo, Iwu Utomo, Peter McDonald, Terence H Hull 1 Abstract Just 30 years ago it was rare to see an Indonesian woman wearing a hijab or veil. Today, veiling has become a relatively common practice, particularly among middle-class Muslim women living in urban areas. Although statistics on the prevalence of veiling are scant, the fact of growing use of headscarves is widely accepted in the literature. This paper examines socio-demographic correlates of veiling among young women in the capital region of Indonesia. We analyse a representative sample of 1,443 Muslim women aged 20-34 in Greater Jakarta in 2010. About 26% of the women surveyed wore the veil. We found a moderately strong association between veiling and other measures of religiosity, including self-reported subjective religiosity and frequency of reading religious texts. Our multivariate analysis suggests a positive association between educational attainment and the likelihood of veiling among young Muslim women. In discussing these findings, we draw upon the qualitative component of our study and the literature on Islam, gender, and modernity in Indonesia. The paper highlights the difficulty encountered examining the practice of veiling as a binary choice, and as a measure of religiosity. Keywords: Veiling, Indonesia, Hijab, Women and Islam, Survey, Prevalence of Veiling, Religion and Education. 1 The Australian National University. Corresponding author: Ariane.utomo@anu.edu.au. Paper presented at Session 93 – Population and Geopolitics, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, April 20 – May 2, 2015. Please do not cite without author(s)’ permission.