Armando Siahaan – Those dreaming, or drooling, to see American porn starlet Sasha Grey strut her stuff in person here in Jakarta can, well, just keep on dreaming. It has been confirmed. She's not coming to town.

Sasha was scheduled to land in Indonesia, a country that wields a mighty anti-pornography law, on Thursday, to attend the premier of "Pocong Mandi Goyang Pinggul" ("Shrouded Corpse Bathing While Hip-Shaking") – what a title, right?

But K2K Production on Monday confirmed that she wouldn't be having a meet-and-greet session with Indonesian porn, err, I mean, horror fans. I initially suspected that Sasha's camp was afraid she would be haunted by the real pocongs.

But it was apparently for a reason far more trite than urban legends – the actress's side had an issue with the threats posed by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), according to producer KK Dheeraj.

Sasha's scrubbed visit reignites the classic cosmic battle between Indonesia's bipolar identities. On one hand, we have the conservative camp that vehemently rejects anything remotely resembling porn, lighting a fire under the political movement in the legislature in 2008 that pushed for the draconian anti-porn law.

But at the same time, porn-watching Indonesians, I believe, are quite ubiquitous.

We have production houses like Maxima Pictures, which produced films featuring Japanese porn starlets Maria Ozama aka Miyabi, Rin Sakuragi and most recently Sora Aoi, and K2K Productions, which previously featured US porn queen Tera Patrick.

These xxx-rated stars, I assume, don't come cheap. Sasha, for example, starred in "Girlfriend Experience," a movie directed by Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh, and was featured in HBO's TV series "Entourage." I'm sure she's not making an appearance with pocongs for chump change.

It's safe to assume that producers keep on hiring them because they know there are more than enough Indonesians familiar with these women, either through the Internet or pirated DVDs, to rake in a profit.

As of this day, however, the conservative camp seems to be winning the war. We not only have a legal framework that bans pornography, but also hard-line groups who are more than happy to enforce it through intimidation and violence.

But then again, as many say, the banning of anything would only leave the people wanting more, including, apparently, members of the House of Representatives from a conservative Islamic political party.

Just go ask any pirated DVD vendor if sales of porn films have gone down after the nation implemented the law.

Anyways, I've seen the trailer of Sasha's movie, which is scheduled to hit the theaters on Thursday – unless, of course, vigilante groups find a way to block this too.

The two-minute clip suggests the movie simply relied on the classic elements: lots of skin and half-hearted sexual suggestions, some slapstick comedy, poor special effects reminiscent of an elementary school play and a sprinkling of Hollywood B-movie influence (as parts of the movie were shot in America, apparently). It's kind of a bizarre, cinematic manifestation of gado-gado.

But since we don't have Hollywood movies in the cinema, perhaps our dear Sasha may just be the closest thing we have to seeing an actress from Tinseltown up on the big screen.