Ismira Lutfia, Zaky Pawas, Amir Tejo & Dofa Fasila, Indonesia – On Tuesday, the eve of Islam's holiest month, various officials separately announced bans on pornographic sites, pros

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Another sex scandal has hit the House of Representatives and may lead to the fall of a legislator as has occurred in two previous instances.

Jakarta – In a major embarrassment for Indonesia's House of Representatives, journalists and House staff members were exposed to hard-core pornographic images broadcast on an internal l

Aubrey Belford, Indonesia – As one of the heads of the Indonesian Internet Service Provider Association, Valens Riyadi knows he has his work cut out for him.

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The Communications and Information Technology Ministry says it can block access to up to 3,000 pornographic Web sites a day, as part of Minister Tifatul Sembiri

Jakarta – Indonesian Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring says he hopes all pornographic Web sites will be blocked before Ramadan – and is warning that ev

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring on Wednesday stressed that he would not back down from his decision to block Internet access

Camelia Pasandaran & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – The highly divisive 2008 Anti-Pornography Law will be back in the Constitutional Court today.

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police believe they have finally found the person responsible for the celebrity sex video scandal that has outraged the country's conservatives and landed a

Camelia Pasandaran & Ismira Lutfia – The government on Wednesday announced plans to block access to pornographic Web sites, but many doubt it actually has the means to effectively e

Gerhard Hoffstaedter – Indonesia has recently been in the thrall of its first celebrity sex-tape scandal.

Farouk Arnaz – Indonesian celebrities Luna Maya and Cut Tari have been named suspects for their alleged starring roles in the Peterporn sex tapes scandal, National Police said on Friday

Anita Rachman – Aisyiyah, the women's wing of Muhammadiyah, the country's second-largest Islamic organization, has backed a controversial government plan to restrict access to pornograp

Police are continuing to flip-flop over the Peterporn scandal, reversing an earlier position that eight people had been arrested for uploading the pornographic videos featuring Indonesi

Nurfika Osman – The National Commission on Violence Against Women has said that the Anti-Pornography Law was not properly able to combat the problem because the issue is not only a lega

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – West Nusa Tenggara Police investigating an Internet sex video featuring a prominent local legislator who is running for district head of Central Lombok say

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta – On a recent Saturday night in Jakarta, sultry songstress Julia Perez shook her cleavage before an enamored crowd of mostly middle-aged businessmen.

Heru Andriyanto – The tough response from police to the current sex-video scandal, allegedly involving some of the country's top celebrities, has left many people worried about the lega

Dessy Sagita – "Don't even think of trying to make a sex video. Just take a look in a mirror, if you must."

Ismira Lutfia – The frenzied media circus that sprang up around uploaded Internet sex videos that seem to star three local celebrities has prompted a debate over what should be consider

Heru Andriyanto & Farouk Arnaz – With legal experts questioning the grounds for any prosecution, police said on Wednesday that the two women seen in sex videos with singer Nazril "A

Johannes Nugroho – Indonesia's latest enfant terrible, singer Nazril "Ariel" Irham of the band Peterpan, has been officially detained for his alleged role in the production of homemade

National Police have charged Peterpan frontman Nazriel "Ariel" Irham under Indonesia's strict Anti-Pornography Law in relation to the Peterporn sex tapes scandal.

Ismira Lutfia – Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring has used an incident in which a teenager had sex with a cow in Bali as an example of why sex outside

Ismira Lutfia & Dessy Sagita – Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring has launched another tirade against pornography, this time linking it to the coun

Jakarta – Indonesian teen heart-throb Nazril Ariel and his model girlfriend Luna Maya expressed shock Monday over an X-rated video that has appeared on the Internet apparently showing t

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesians grappled with their first-ever celebrity sex-tape scandal, casting aside social taboos as they swarmed around office computers and mobile phones to

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The communications and information technology minister said sex videos allegedly featuring celebrities made him "feverish", adding that the country needed a

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – An internet porn scandal involving a starlet who once interviewed Hillary Clinton on live television, another celebrity with links to Australia and the ma

Joe Cochrane – Could it be that the country's most popular model/presenter/actress was in a racy homemade sex tape with her pop-star boyfriend?

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – An East Aceh district councillor was hospitalized after an angry mob that suspected him of committing adultery attacked him while he was trying to escape from

Ismira Lutfia – In his latest call for more stringent Internet controls, Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring has unearthed more statistics on teenage sex that are s

Putri Prameshwari – A child protection group is shocked by the results of a survey in which 94 percent of the teenagers polled said they have engaged in oral sex.

Putri Prameshwari – A shocking survey that found more than 9 out of 10 teenagers in major cities engaged in sexual activity has been disowned by the agency that supposedly carried out t

Almost 100 percent of 4,500 Indonesian urban teenagers sampled in a new survey have had oral sex and 32 percent have had full sexual intercourse.

Ulma Haryanto – It had all the elements of a remarkable story – a Japanese porn star, the film industry, an allegedly outraged nation and Islamic extremists promising revenge – but in t

Ulma Haryanto & Nurfika Osman – The chief of the Jakarta branch of the Islamic Defenders Front said on Wednesday that he would urge members of the hard line group to watch "Menculik

An official from the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Aceh Barat and the married woman he was caught having intercourse with were paraded naked through a village, tied to a pole and bru

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A human rights activist on Thursday slammed the humiliating punishment meted out to a teacher in Aceh Barat and the married woman he was suspected of having a

The Constitutional Court recently gave a nod to one of the most controversial laws in Indonesia's history: the pornography law, promptly igniting rage and criticism from women's and hum

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A community group in Papua has denounced the Constitutional Court's recent rejection of a judicial review of the 2008 Pornography Law as a threat to their

Jakarta – Constitutional Court chief Mahfud M.D.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women on Friday slammed the Constitutional Court for its decision to reject a judicial review filed against the 2008

I Wayan Juniartha, Denpasar – Bali People Component (KRB), a coalition of rights activists, pledged Thursday to continue opposition to the controversial pornography bill.

Nurfika Osman, Anita Rachman & AP – Anti-pornography laws judged women's bodies according to religious and moral values, which was not only sexist but also designed to target them,

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court almost unanimously turned down Thursday a judicial review filed against the controversial pornography law, but the ruling faile

Camelia Pasandaran – The Constitutional Court upheld Indonesia's controversial Anti-Pornography Law on Thursday, rejecting plaintiff's arguments that it failed to clearly define porn.

Nurfika Osman & Heru Andriyanto – The shock jailing under the country's controversial Antipornography Law of six women for putting on an erotic dance show in Bandung has left women'

Bandung – Prosecutors charged six people on Thursday under the country's Anti-Pornography Law for allegedly putting on a nude dance show at a bar in the early hours of New Year's Day.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Participants were met with applause, but also taunts when they stepped on the catwalk during a Miss Transvestite Aceh pageant on Saturday evening.