Former chief editor of Playboy Indonesia arrested in Bali

South Jakarta Prosecutors' Office have arrested the former chief editor of Playboy Indonesia, Erwin Arnada, at the Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali, on Saturday.

M Yusuf, the office's chief, told kompas.com that Erwin was on his way to board a plane going for Jakarta.

Erwin has defied the office summons after the Supreme Court granted the prosecutors' appeal in July 2009 and sentenced him to two year in prison for public indecency.

The Indonesian edition of Playboy stirred controversy when it hit newsstands in 2006, causing an uproar among several Islamic groups, which described the men’s magazine as a symbol of moral decadence.

The South Jakarta District Court cleared Erwin of all charges in 2007, when presiding judge Efran Basuning said the photographs presented at Erwin’s trial were not pornographic. The Jakarta High Court later also cleared Erwin of all charges and later the prosecutors filed another appeal against the ruling.