JAKARTA - It took one week for a violent protest to erupt in Indonesia against a new local edition of Playboy magazine -- and one more day for police to say it should pack up its bunny ears and move out of the capital.

The police chief in Jakarta yesterday said he would ask the publishers of the legendary girlie magazine to move operations to some other city after two policemen were wounded in a protest the previous day.

"For the time being while awaiting the investigation [of the attack], we will ask that the publishing of the Playboy magazine not be done in Jakarta," General Firman Gani said, according to the Detikcom news service. He did not suggest an alternative location.

About 300 protesters from the radical Islamic Defenders Front protested on Wednesday outside an office building in South Jakarta where the office of Playboy's Indonesian publisher is located. The protest turned violent when demonstrators threw stones at the building, shattering windows on several floors and damaging a fire hydrant. They also pelted policemen securing the building, injuring two of them.

Indonesia's first edition of the monthly appeared last week. The magazine, famed in the US for its rabbit logo and its pictures of naked women, contains no nudity here.

The local version was no more risque than editions of British men's magazines already on sale in the world's most populous Muslim country. But it quickly sold out, and copies changed hands at three times the cover price. "We will carry out more attacks if Playboy refuses to stop publishing," Salim Ali Hamid, one of the protest leaders, said on Wednesday.

Gani told reporters that those behind the violence would be rounded up. "Whoever is involved in the vandalizing will be questioned," he said. Most of Indonesia's Muslims, who make up around 85 percent of the population of 220 million, practise a moderate and tolerant form of the religion.

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Posted in General @ 15 April 2006 18:24 CET by Jeroen · · permalink

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kiwimave
User

(Edited) Posted @ 15 April 2006 20:53

Damn...they give way to those FPI terrorists...How can the once so strong Indonesian police do this??? Suharto we need you badly..

Hopefully this is not true?! We are heading towards a Taliban society Im afraid...

How can we stop this malignant tumor??

kiwimave
User

(Edited) Posted @ 15 April 2006 20:53

Damn...they give way to those FPI terrorists...How can the once so strong Indonesian police do this??? Suharto we need you badly..

Hopefully this is not true?! We are heading towards a Taliban society Im afraid...

How can we stop this malignant tumor??

LelyCabe
User

Posted @ 21 April 2006 20:20

Playboy magz, probably not the only one of FPI victims,
I don't blame much what police did in their action in taking care of one of this country's problem, but why playboy? Actually there are also some magz in Indonesia that's similiar face and content, and they are available in the stores, anyone can buy them. it was also remind us to Inul's case.

I took this petition below from one site,

To: DPR Republik Indonesia

FPI (Front Pembela Islam) has violate many laws in Indonesia.

They carried weapons but no police dare to capture them.

They destroy a lot of legal cafe but no police dare to touch them.

They spoke in the name of God but their hand is full of blood.

For the unity of Indonesia, Disband FPI!

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

http://www.petitiononline.com/noFPI/

LelyCabe
User

Posted @ 21 April 2006 20:20

Playboy magz, probably not the only one of FPI victims,
I don't blame much what police did in their action in taking care of one of this country's problem, but why playboy? Actually there are also some magz in Indonesia that's similiar face and content, and they are available in the stores, anyone can buy them. it was also remind us to Inul's case.

I took this petition below from one site,

To: DPR Republik Indonesia

FPI (Front Pembela Islam) has violate many laws in Indonesia.

They carried weapons but no police dare to capture them.

They destroy a lot of legal cafe but no police dare to touch them.

They spoke in the name of God but their hand is full of blood.

For the unity of Indonesia, Disband FPI!

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

http://www.petitiononline.com/noFPI/

dirgantara
User

(Edited) Posted @ 22 April 2006 23:07

++++FPI is FEDERATION for PLAYBOYS INDONESIA+++++

Indonesia merdeka

dirgantara
User

(Edited) Posted @ 22 April 2006 23:07

++++FPI is FEDERATION for PLAYBOYS INDONESIA+++++

Indonesia merdeka

dirgantara
User

(Edited) Posted @ 22 April 2006 23:14

The Jakarta Police Chief should not ask questions like these.
He should take care of the security, safety of any inhabitants in Jakarta.
Especially the minorities.

To minimize the damage of the FPI and other extreme organisations some necessary points:

*Brimob, Kostrad should be able to shoot with live ammo on these FPI thugs.

*FPI members should register every 6 hours to a police station

*The FPI members and their family should be put under close surveillance of the Badan Intelijen Negara.

*FPI member bankaccounts should be blocked, insurances should be discontinued.
They should use bankaccounts closely monitored by Badan Intelijen Negara

*FPI members who not respect the Indonesian law should get a chip implemented to track down their location.

*Organisations like FPI should be added to terrorist list of the United Nations.

*FPI members should be prohibited to leave their city.

dirgantara
User

(Edited) Posted @ 22 April 2006 23:14

The Jakarta Police Chief should not ask questions like these.
He should take care of the security, safety of any inhabitants in Jakarta.
Especially the minorities.

To minimize the damage of the FPI and other extreme organisations some necessary points:

*Brimob, Kostrad should be able to shoot with live ammo on these FPI thugs.

*FPI members should register every 6 hours to a police station

*The FPI members and their family should be put under close surveillance of the Badan Intelijen Negara.

*FPI member bankaccounts should be blocked, insurances should be discontinued.
They should use bankaccounts closely monitored by Badan Intelijen Negara

*FPI members who not respect the Indonesian law should get a chip implemented to track down their location.

*Organisations like FPI should be added to terrorist list of the United Nations.

*FPI members should be prohibited to leave their city.

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