Indonesia’s Sexy Video Scandal Grows
After weeks of extraordinary public fixation, Indonesian police Tuesday arrested Nazril “Ariel” Irham on charges related to a sex video scandal involving the singer and two female celebrities, one of them his girlfriend Luna Maya, 26.
All three, including Irham, Luna and another television show host, Cut Tari, 32, were scheduled Wednesday to undergo anatomical and dental examinations to be compared with the videos, which reportedly were taken off Irham’s computer hard disk by so-far unknown persons. […]
Hmmm….
National Police spokesman Chief Cmdr Marwoto Soeto told local media that Irham was charged under Article 4 of the pornography law, which prohibits “producing, creating, reproducing, copying, distributing, broadcasting, importing, exporting, offering, trading, renting or otherwise making available pornography.”
Significantly, the singer was charged with making the videos – a private act – rather than distributing them.Under the Anti-Pornography Act, no distinction is made between private and public acts. […]
This is the signature of a totalitarian law - the loss of privacy.
More at the article, including the politics of dealing with the conservatives in the nation, the drive to appease them, and the even more rightist religious fanatics which both conservative moslems and modernists are trying to contain.