How Indonesia’s Porn Bill degrades women
by Toshi (foreignprophecies.blogspot.com)
This is what happens when we elect idiots into the Lower House. Out of the many parties in the Lower House, onlyPDI-Pand PDShave the will to reject such a discriminative legislation into approval.The fact remains that a couple of those legislators are having some illicit one-night stands with prostitutes in some of Jakarta's five-star hotels (with or without knowledge of the mass media), hence they want to cover up their wrongdoings by passing this "holy bill."We Indonesians always commemorate 21 April as Kartini Day, the day whenRaden Ajeng Kartini, the main emancipator of womenduring the heydays of Indonesian awakening era, was born.Ah, what a hypocritical nation Indonesia has turned into!We claim to protect women when now we have regulations that decide what a "morally decent" woman could wear and could notwear.We claim to emancipate women by imposing a curfew for women to disallow them from walking the streets alone (as is evidenttoday in Tangerang city, Banten).That does not manifest the so-called "Indonesian emancipation for women", does it?Whether a woman in the beach wants to wear
hijab
(Islamic headscarf), a bikini, or a cleavage-revealing skimpy T-shirt, it is her fullright to do so, just like the way men have the right to show his muscle abdomens by not wearing any shirt at all.A picture of a nudity
may or may not
incite sexual arousal, because just as the beauty is in the eye of the beholder, sexual arousalis in itself also in the eye of the beholder.One clean-minded guy may see the Miss Universe in nude as uninviting, while another guy may see a lady fully clothed in red dressas sexually arousing.Pornography is one subjective thing, really.Now let us have a look at some of the contentious articles in the porn bill itself...
Article 1: Definition
Pornography is drawings, sketches, illustrations, photographs, texts, voices, sound, moving pictures, animations,cartoons, poetry, conversations, gestures, or other forms of communicative messages through various kinds of media;and/or performances in front of the public, which may incite obscenity, sexual exploitation and/or violate moral ethics inthe community.
Commentary by Toshi on Article 1
Ah, so "pornography" is a loosely-defined word!
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