I've been avoiding saying something about the issue of Playboy publishing in Indonesia, but I've read and seen just about enough idiotic and hypocritical statements and actions. Today's Jakarta Post ran a story about the groups trying to get Playboy out of Indonesia. Sorry, brothers, but it's a about time that you put your energy into helping people rather than smashing up office buildings.
I'd don't read Playboy, but if I want to find pornography in Indonesia, it's easy enough to find. You can buy BFs (blue films) in the main cities in Bali, so I assume that it would be even easier to buy in Jakarta or Surabaya. How about the Internet? And the expat men trolling for young boys and girls in the major cities and tourist areas? This is not to mention the fairly sexually explicit magazines and newspapers that you can find in news stands and bookstores.
In the meantime, there are kids running around the street begging, doing street singing, washing car windows, and stealing. If the Islam Defender's Front wants to do something worthy of Islam, let them get some social programs going for these kids. Perhaps I read the Qu'ran incorrectly, but my reading tells me that no one (no human that is) has the right to tell me how to live as a Muslim. Perhaps it's time that Indonesian Muslims stood up and told these misguided gentlemen just what they could do with their time to serve the people and Allah rather than getting their names in the paper and their mugs on tv.
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