Ahmad Pathoni, Banda Aceh – Shops in Indonesia's Aceh province, where Islamic law is in force, will soon be banned from selling tight-fitting clothes, an official said on Thursday.

Robin McDowell – Titin Karisma parades onto the stage wearing a rhinestone bustier and matching bottoms, with sequin fringe that jiggles wildly to the rhythm of the beating drums.

Farouk Arnaz & Arientha Primanita – The governor of West Kalimantan has come out and denounced a sex tape allegedly featuring his lawmaker daughter as a political attack on his fami

Aceh, North Sumatra – Sixty-two young women were detained in a raid for wearing tight clothing in Wilayatul Hisbah, Bireuen, Aceh on Tuesday evening.

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Jakarta – Just a few weeks after its establishment, the Antipornography Task Force is touting its first achievement: blocking pornography on the Internet.

Ezra Sihite – A sex tape allegedly involving two politicians from Indonesia's opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle have been leaked online, reports said on Tuesday.

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Indonesia's religious affairs minister believes miniskirts are pornographic and should be banned under the country's tough new anti-porn laws.

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Ezra Sihite & Michael Sianipar – Asked to define pornography, an American Supreme Court justice once famously said: "I know it when I see it." The way Religious Affairs Minister Sur

Ezra Sihite – House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Pramono Anung has criticized proposals to ban short skirts in Indonesia, saying the state had more important things to do.

Erwida Maulia – A proposed law regulating the length of women's skirts was blasted by the head of the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) on Wednesday.

Ezra Sihite – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali says he is considering a regulation that women's skirts should pass their knees as a follow-up to the recent establishment of th

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John McBeth – An Indonesia woman attending a recent anticorruption dialogue with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was surprised when a palace protocol officer approached her before th

Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – No matter how hard the government has tried to eradicate pornography, the reality is that its trade in the capital continues to thrive.

Ezra Sihite & Dessy Sagita – A barrage of criticism and scorn continue to assail the president's recent establishment of an anti-pornography task force, with many saying on Wednesda

Jakarta – The government is set to create anti-pornography task forces at provincial and regency levels as an extension to the new anti-porn task force which was recently formed by Pres

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Arienta Primanita, Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has formed a task force to implement the country's controversial Anti-Pornography Law, prompting

Erwida Maulia – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has formed Indonesia's first anti-pornography task force to oversee the enforcement of the country's controversial 2008 law banning th

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Police have arrested 16 striptease dancers at a hotel in North Jakarta and charged them with "committing a pornographic act."

Fitri, Mataram – Some dangdut songs have gone too far, according to the West Nusa Tenggara Broadcasting Commission, which on Thursday announced a ban on 10 songs with "pornographic" lyr

Five striptease dancers and two female disc jockeys were caught red-handed while naked at a nightclub in Pekanbaru, Riau, early on Tuesday, police said.

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – Nazril "Ariel" Irham, the lead singer of the band Peterpan who was jailed for distributing pornography following a controversial sex video scandal, is participati

Police said on Wednesday that they were still investigating TV celebrities and models Luna Maya and Cut Tari for sex tapes allegedly featuring them with rock star Nazril "Ariel" Irham.

Banda Aceh – Ulema in Aceh have warned Muslims, the younger generation in particular, that observing Valentine's Day is not allowed in Islam and against Shariah law that is in force in

Jakarta – The Tangerang Police have declared RD, 16, a suspect for allegedly sexually abusing a minor, and charged him with violating the child protection law.

A religious teacher from a state high school in Madura, East Java, is likely to face sanctions after he was caught having sex with a married woman during Ramadan.

Camelia Pasandaran – The Depok municipal administration in West Java said it will close all karaoke businesses in the city, saying local bylaws don't permit them.

Antara & Camelia Pasandaran, Bandung – Bandung's factory outlets are open to Miss Universe, but its charity functions are not, according to the West Java branch of the Indonesian C

Jakarta – Up to 67 percent of children below the age of 13 in the East Nusa Tenggara capital of Kupang have accessed porn sites, mostly via mobile phones, a survey has found.

The Bogor district government says it will begin to monitor hotels hosting illegal karaoke and nightclub venues.

Elisabeth Oktofani & Yuli Saputra – Miss Universe 2011 Leila Lopes has walked straight into a controversy while visiting Indonesia after she was reportedly offered an exorbitant sum

Model, singer and actress Julia Perez says she is disappointed by moves by a branch of the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) to ban erotic dangdut singers, including herself.

Padang – The Padang City administration has officially revoked the license of Fellas Cafe and Resto for employing strippers.

Banda Aceh – A brother and sister who had a child together have been banished from their Aceh village, despite officials struggling to find an offense to charge them with under the prov

Surabaya – The Golkar Party is set to hold a traditional Javanese ceremony at one of Indonesia's most revered archeological sites on Friday night in response to what is says is the nati

Sidoarjo – The Sidoarjo Transportation Agency in East Java has ordered truck owners to remove all erotic paintings and provocative slogans from their vehicles because they are considere

Nurfika Osman – Activists on Thursday denounced the Anti-Pornography Law, saying it had been far too harsh on Peterpan frontman Nazril "Ariel" Irham and others like him, but too lenient

Batam – Despite protests from several Muslim organizations, last weekend's bikini beach party at a hotel in Bintan drew almost 2,000 guests.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Organizers of a beauty pageant in Aceh defied opposition from a conservative Islamic group by staging the event on Friday evening.

Islamic students organization Rabithah Thaliban Aceh (RTA) has opposed plans to hold a Miss Aceh pageant as part of the 2011 Aceh Fair at Blang Padang in Banda Aceh.

The hard-line Islamic Defenders Front is preparing to hold a rally in front of the offices of film production house K2K, which made the horror movie "Pocong Mandi Goyang Pinggul" ("Shro

Arientha Primanita – The verdict is in: making your own sex video is not illegal.

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – The Bandung High Court has rejected the appeal filed by Peterpan frontman Nazril Irham against his conviction on pornography charges, a judge said on Monday.

Jakarta – His resignation announced, apologies offered and sanctions enacted, former legislator Arifinto bid farewell to his political career.

Elisabeth Oktofani – The latest Indonesian movie featuring an international porn star is set to hit the country's screens at the end of the month, the producers said on Tuesday.

From comparisons to the Peterporn scandal to plans to seize and examine politicians' gadgets, the case of a lawmaker photographed browsing a pornographic Web site has sparked a range of