Plans to launch an Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine angered Muslims in the world’s largest Islamic nation.
Although Local Playboy licensee Ponti Carolus Pandean claimed that the edition would not contain nudity, Indonesian Muslims, including leaders of large Islamic organizations, fiercely rejected the launch of the “immoral and un-Islamic” magazine.
The country’s main religious affairs authority, the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI), demanded the government to ban magazine.
"The government should forbid this kind of media, as it will cause a strong reaction from people and tend to bring anarchy among the people who are against this magazine," the Antara news agency quoted MUI fatwa commission head Maruf Amin as saying.
Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), also said that pornography would corrupt youth, and demanded the government to ban other magazines with lewd contents.
Indonesian criminal law bans any material that offends public morals and decency or corrupts juveniles. Legislators are currently considering tougher morality laws.
Apart from the American edition, Playboy has 20 local editions, although none in the Islamic world.
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