Samantha Hawley – A rice noodle snack with a drawing of a bikini-clad torso on the packaging and the slogan "squeeze me" is proving too revealing for Indonesian authorities, who fear the snack is "motivating children to enter the world of pornography".
Who would have thought a polka dot bikini would cause so much controversy, even if it is so very teenie weenie? In Muslim majority Indonesia, it does not take too much to offend.
The packaging of a rice noodle snack has authorities in meltdown and the slogan "remas aku" or "squeeze me" has them squirming. The rice noodles, called Bikini and sold only online, have a drawing of bikini-clad torso on the packaging that is proving too revealing for some.
Indonesia's Food and Drug Monitoring Agency has launched an investigation, the Bandung mayor says the product is immoral, and the Indonesian Child Protection Commission has demanded the so-called bikini noodles be withdrawn from the market.
"We want it pulled from distribution," Maria Ulfa from the Indonesian Commission on Children Protection told the ABC.
Authorities though are finding it difficult to track down the noodle porn perpetrators.
"Our staff tried to buy the noodles but it turns out the seller is checking the background of the possible buyers," Drug and Food Monitoring Agency chairwoman Penny Lukito said during an interview with the ABC. "It's clear that with such porn nuances there is no way we would let them go into the market."