Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – The Islamic Defenders Front on Friday filed a police complaint against John Badalu, organizer of the Q! Film Festival, condemning the event's Web site as pornographic.

Habib Salim Alatas, chief of the hard-line group's Jakarta Representative Council, said the site had homosexual content and used pornographic words.

Habib's lawyer, Munarman, said the complaint accused Badalu of violating the 2008 Information and Electronic Transaction Law (ITE).

"The Web site contains the words 'f!!king different.' On the same Web site there are pornographic pictures of men kissing other men," Munarman said.

"We are not too worried about the existence of such a Web site. But we believe it could violate the laws of humanity. And it also clearly disturbs the norms of public decency."

He said the site could have a dangerous influence on youth. "If they continue to run such movies, we will report them because the film festival has not passed censors, in accordance to existing regulations. They could face a jail term."

Habib Salim said he had a DVD that contained clips of the movies in the festival. "We have the evidence of those movies showing men kissing men," he said. "I have not seen it myself. I just saw it on the Web site. That [is] clearly a violation."

On Tuesday, 100 FPI members protested at film festival venues.

In its ninth year, Q! is the biggest gay film showcase in Asia and the only one in the Muslim world, testifying to Indonesia's reputation as a moderate country.

But religious intolerance has been rising in recent years, with the authorities unable or unwilling to prevent vigilantes from attacking and intimidating minority groups in the name of Islam.

Earlier, Indonesia's top Islamic body reiterated its claim that homosexuality was an abuse of human rights and demanded the government ban the gay and lesbian film festival.

It condemned foreign cultural centers for showing the films at private screenings as angry Muslims protested outside.

"We reject the screening of the films which concern the lives of gay and homosexual people as they are against Islamic and Indonesian cultural values," said Ma'ruf Amin, chairman of the Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI).