Playboy's "moral terrorisms" in Indonesia ?
The Great American Icon exporting Moral Terrorisms to Indonesia ? What funny justification they can cooked up ! ? Protests for the sake of protesting !!!! The popular government elected by the majority of Indonesians allows the tamed down version to be published in Indonesia, but a small group of noisy moral minority trying to gain recognition and acceptance resorting to conducting viloent protests and damaging properties. A few hundred people trying dictate their misguided moral values to a few millions silent majority ? Violent is right ? Is that your much valued Asian cultures ? What next and how despicable and LOW can you go ?
In the name of honouring Asian values and respecting its sensitivities, Maybe Playboy should change the magazine name in Indonesia to Prayboy !!! That will be a plus sign for American capitalisms at work in Indonesia.......
As reported in Jakarta Post, 12th April 2006
Protesters stone 'Playboy'
JAKARTA (AP): Muslim activists demanding that Playboy stop publishing an Indonesian edition of the magazine stoned the company's editorial offices on Wednesday and clashed with police officers guarding the building, witnesses said. No one was injured in the melee involving around 150 members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), a small hardline group known for vandalizing bars and nightclubs, as well as Western embassies. The protesters smashed several windows and the door and gate at the magazine's officers in south Jakarta, witnesses said. The toned-down edition of the U.S. magazine went on sale starting last Friday, defying threats of protests by Islamic leaders who called the publication a form of moral terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The magazine does not feature nude women, and its photos of female models in underwear are no more risque than those in other magazines already for sale in the country. More explicit photos appear daily in local tabloids. Protesters hit the streets in towns across Indonesia when the magazine announced in January it was planning a local version, but it remains to be seen whether demonstrations will pick up again after people have read it. Most Indonesians practice a moderate form of Islam, and many women shun standard Middle Eastern forms of dress associated with Muslims. Many Indonesian women do not cover their heads and oftendress in tight-fitting jeans and sleeveless tops. The magazine costs around US$5, more than twice the minimum daily wage in Jakarta, but affordable to many middle-and upper-class city dwellers. As well as two photo spreads of partially clothed women, the first edition includes an interview with internationally renowned Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and articles on East Timor after its break from Jakarta-rule in 1999 and the development of Indonesian cartoons.
Protesters stone 'Playboy'
JAKARTA (AP): Muslim activists demanding that Playboy stop publishing an Indonesian edition of the magazine stoned the company's editorial offices on Wednesday and clashed with police officers guarding the building, witnesses said. No one was injured in the melee involving around 150 members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), a small hardline group known for vandalizing bars and nightclubs, as well as Western embassies. The protesters smashed several windows and the door and gate at the magazine's officers in south Jakarta, witnesses said. The toned-down edition of the U.S. magazine went on sale starting last Friday, defying threats of protests by Islamic leaders who called the publication a form of moral terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The magazine does not feature nude women, and its photos of female models in underwear are no more risque than those in other magazines already for sale in the country. More explicit photos appear daily in local tabloids. Protesters hit the streets in towns across Indonesia when the magazine announced in January it was planning a local version, but it remains to be seen whether demonstrations will pick up again after people have read it. Most Indonesians practice a moderate form of Islam, and many women shun standard Middle Eastern forms of dress associated with Muslims. Many Indonesian women do not cover their heads and oftendress in tight-fitting jeans and sleeveless tops. The magazine costs around US$5, more than twice the minimum daily wage in Jakarta, but affordable to many middle-and upper-class city dwellers. As well as two photo spreads of partially clothed women, the first edition includes an interview with internationally renowned Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and articles on East Timor after its break from Jakarta-rule in 1999 and the development of Indonesian cartoons.
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Just to point out the "misconception" you have here. One thing sure, Majority of Muslims ( and Christians, Buddhists, etc) are peace loving people. I know, becasue I am a non Islamist living happily in an Islamic country. Of Course, in any country, there are always narrow minded pariahs and chauvinistic parasites trying very hard to impose their misguided and outdated values on others. Just ignore them and let them beat their empty drums. What we observed in Indonesia with regards the "playboy" issue is basically a small insignificant group of misguided lunatics and criminals, hijacking the good name of religion, to conduct violences in the hope of gaining recognition and popularity. I sincerely doubt they have any guilts or moral decency for their premeditated stupidity...
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