Nudity in Indonesia

Well, she is Nadine Chandrawinata, the Indonesia’s representative in Miss Universe 2006.

She did not make it to the finals of the Sunday competition in Los Angeles, which was won by Miss Puerto Rico, but she had drawn heavy media coverage in Indonesia, partly because of her mixed Indonesian-German parentage and Eurasian looks.

A militant Islamic group has filed a police report against Indonesia’s Miss Universe candidate accusing her of indecency, a lawyer for the organization said on Tuesday.

Nadine Chandrawinata’s participation in the contest and display of her body in a swimsuit there "is actually insulting for Indonesian dignity and women", Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) attorney Sugito told Reuters.

This reminded me of the Playboy magazine which arrived in Indonesia three months ago, with an edition specially created to take account of local customs — no photographs of nude women, no nudity at all.

Fairly predictably, the FPI which specializes in attacks on nightclubs and gambling dens, threw rocks at the Playboy office in Jakarta, forced the magazine to move to Bali, where foreign tourists parade their skimpy swimsuits and frolic in alcohol-suffused nightclubs.

Subsequently, the Indonesian Society Against Piracy and Pornography (MAPPI), which is pushing the anti-pornography bill, filed suit against the magazine, prompting the police investigation into the editorial team and then being charged with indecency.

What I’m wondering is, what’s the point of going after a lady (which might do Indonesian proud?) in the 2-pieces bikini and a magazine titled PlayBoy (due to its fame apparently!) which contains no photographs of NO nudity at all?

While blogger Ong Hock Chuan is kind enough to call this "Universal Destruction", however, don’t get conned by part of the negative exemplary mentioned above, afterall, you would simply amazed by the liberalisation level shown!