Letters: Porn bill is not just for Indonesians

Sat, 05/16/2009 2:05 PM  |  Readers Forum

I refer to an article titled "Porn law discussed in judicial review," (the Post, May 7).

The Indonesian porn law is unjust. When I grew up in Jakarta there was no such thing as an Indonesian pornography law.

How can the Indonesian government tell the citizens what to wear and not to wear? You aren't my mother. It's like Indonesia is now under a dictatorship. The fact is that Indonesia is a diverse country that consists of different ethnics groups.

In Indonesia's history and culture, Balinese women wore no top or no cover-up, only sarongs on their bottom halves, while the Irian Jaya people bare their butts.

Actually, women wearing tank tops, sport bras, tankinis, bikinis, short pants or miniskirts aren't being sexually explicit. Learn the correct definition of pornography and allow the citizens to wear whatever they want, for the sake of comfort or in regard to the weather.

Lenny Larsen
California

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