Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – If this was a race, the Communications and Information Technology Ministry would be the heavily panting, sweaty out of shape runner who drags his feet

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Around 20 members of the Islamic Defenders' Front gathered in front of the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office on Friday demanding the arrest of Playboy's Editor-i

Putri Prameshwari, Jakarta – The head of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front says he has ordered his members to find Erwin Arnada, the former editor of the Indonesian edition of Playb

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The South Jakarta Prosecutors' Office said Wednesday it would immediately detain the former chief editor of the now-defunct Playboy Indonesia magazine, Erwin

Jakarta – Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar advised foreign visitors on Thursday against going out in public scantily dressed.

Jakarta – While admitting the task at hand will be difficult, Internet service providers (ISPs) said they will do their best to block pornographic websites amid continuing pressure incl

Jakarta – A complete ban on all pornographic websites in observance of the Ramadan fasting period is unfeasible, Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring say

Putri Prameshwari, Jakarta – The government's plan to block "offensive sites" on the Internet has come under fire from several Web sites, including two major news portals, which have su

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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 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

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.

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

Jakarta – Constitutional Court chief Mahfud M.D.

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