Pornography & Sexual Morality

January 2018

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – January 22, 2018

Prima Gumilang, Jakarta – A sweeping action (raid) by the Islamic Defenders Militia (Laskar Pembela Islam, LPI) has ended in a clash with residents of Pamekasan on Madura Island in East Java. Local people resisted the raid which resulted in 10 people being injured including housewives and children.

November 2017

News/Indonesia
Detik News – November 7, 2017

Yakub Mulyono, Jember – Hundreds of students from the Muhammadiyah 5 Vocational High School (SMK) in Jember, East Java, have uninstalled WhatsApp (WA) from their mobile phones as a form of protest because WA can access content that contains pornography.

May 2014

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – May 10, 2014

Door reads: Intensive Care Unit. Sign on bed: Moral Crisis. Bed cover: Corruption, bribery, judicial mafia, money politics, violence, terrorism, racial, religious and ethnic conflicts, sexual harassment, lives lost, pedophilia... Drip reads: Pancasila.

May 2012

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – May 16, 2012

Cop: Not in line with our national culture and morals...

Man: And this Mr? (state budget)

March 2012

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – March 10, 2012

Legislator: It is forbidden to be corrupt, accept bribes, broker projects, play truant, wear mini-skirts!

February 2011

News/Indonesia
Okezone.com – February 4, 2011

Mahfiroh, Jakarta – Women’s activists including the Women’s Legal Aid Foundation (LBH APIK) and the Free Women National Network (JRPM) are supporting television host Luna Maya as a victims of the distribution of a private video containing sex scenes.

June 2010

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – June 26, 2010

Man: As I’ve said, it’s porno if it’s done openly... if it’s secret it’s not porno!

Kid: So we live in the Republic of Pornography right Dad?

February 2009

News/Indonesia
Tempo Interactive – February 13, 2009

Yogyakarta – Around 50 students from the University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) campus’ Proselytizing Institutions Goodwill Forum held an action on February 13 opposing the celebration of Valentines Day claiming that it tarnishes the sanctity of love.

December 2008

News/Indonesia
Detik.com – December 9-10, 2008

Denpasar – The signing of the Anti-Pornography Law by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has attracted protests in the Indonesian resort island of Bali, with two of the students planning to demonstrate against the law being arrested by police.

November 2008

News/West Papua
Detik.com – November 3, 2008

Laurencius Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Leaders from the Communion of Christian Churches (PGGK) covering five regencies and municipalities in West Papua province went to the House of Representatives (DPR) on Monday November 3 to declare their opposition to the recently enacted law on pornography.