Burn Baby Burn

Last week in Sumatra it appears that hundreds of people rallied and burned down tens of houses in a red light district in Pelalawan, as part of a vigilante style anti-vice campaign ahead of Ramadan.

Police apparently stood by and stated that they could not stop the crowd from damaging the properties.

The Jakarta Globe reported…

Earlier, residents living around the red light district had demanded its closure, but their request was ignored, which led them to take the law into their own hands.

Initially, people were only vandalizing property in the area, but then some began setting fire to the dwellings. The fire spread quickly as most of the homes were made of wood.

The tenants in the houses attempted to extinguish the blaze and limit the damage to property, but it was too large.

“The people have long warned red light district operators to stop their activities but the warnings were ignored. This is the result of their arrogance,” said the third chairman of the local chapter of the Council of Ulema. (Pardon me but the use of the word arrogance is questionable here)

He said the red light activities in the area had been going on for decades and its presence had made the local community feel uncomfortable. It was also hurting the morality of the younger generation, he added.

Bit heavy handed but it seems that if you are moral enough, mob rule overcomes Law and Order.

All it amounts to is that the former customers will be deprived off (see photo below) for a while…..

Bekasi, Sex Capital of Indonesia (Or so it seems)

In other news,  Bekasi maintains it’s lead as a hot bed (literally) of sin with reports coming in regarding a new religious sect which has some rather interesting theories on worship…

Once again the Jakarta Post explains (How do they get all the juicy stuff)

A squad of officers from the South Jakarta Police are heading to Bekasi in pursuit of the leader of a religious sect that practices rituals involving sexual orgies and preaches free sex, after arresting two members earlier in Pasar Minggu on Tuesday.

A police report said the sect, Satria Piningit Weteng Buwono, operated in Jakarta and Bekasi since 2007, and was led by a spiritual leader identified as Agus Iman Solichin also known as Noro.

Although employing elements similar to those used by Muslims, Noro reportedly told his followers to switch sex partners as part of religious ritual, and also to have sex while being watched by other members.

Instead of praying five times a day, the police report went on, the cult's members were told to play music together while singing pop tunes with mantras. ( Using an ABBA song as the call to prayer would surely have given the game away methinks)

He is said to have about 40 followers, all adults. At the beginning, Noro told them to pray and carry out religious recitations. After several months, he told them he was God and that they didn't have to do that any more.  

Even better, Noro gave religious sermons wearing only his underpants and taught his disciples "Kamasutra" sex techniques to use in the afterlife, with followers claiming that they behaved as if they had been hypnotised during these “lessons”

An Attorney General's Office spokesman said the sect leader could face five years in prison under the current laws. Only problem is that the investigation would be undertaken by a special group within the AGO!.

Yes, once again, there is a killer, the special group mentioned is the “ Coordinating Body for Monitoring Mystical Beliefs in Society” …bloody hell, I don’t know about you but this sounds like Indonesia’s very own Torchwood, presumably without the gays!

Inspecting Cherries – Madura Style…

It seems to be one a day at the moment with the sexual behaviour clerics and “alternative church leaders being reported for “Lewd and Libidinous Behaviour.”

The issue here is that certain actions are considered as acceptable as this case below shows with the school authorities stating that the issue was being handled “Internally”.

My stance on this is that it seems that an Internal Investigation is too late as it had already taken place.



From the Jakarta Post:

A junior high school teacher in Pamekasan, Madura, is facing sexual assult charges after inappropriately touching six of his female students in what he claims was a "virginity examination" last week.


Thalib, who teachers Islamic religious ethics at state-run junior high school SMP 6, admitted to the students' parents on Tuesday that he "examined the virginity" of six students' last Wednesday, after receiving information that they belonged to the so-called Bolot Geng group, a local gang. 

Sing along - Wanna be in my gang, my gang, my gang

"I had no intention to commit sexual abuse. I did it to prevent them from having free sex in the illegal organization," he told the students' parents and the school's management.

The students' parents, along with many villagers, came to the school's campus and attempted to assault the teacher, but were stopped by the school's management. (When they use the word assault here, I get the feeling that they were intent on castration and making him eat his own penis..I love the Jakarta Posts reporting style sometimes)


"We were asked to come in to the room one by one. We were asked to bow down and while uttering magic words, the teacher touched our sex organs with his hand or leg. To end the examination, he (the teacher) asked us not to report on it to our parents and threatened to impose sanctions if we did so," Kris (not her real name), one of the victims, told The Jakarta Post. 

("Magic Words" and a "Leg" ...my imagination has just run riot) 

Hasyim, who is representing the six students' parents, rejected the school management's request to settle the matter internally, saying they would file a complaint with local police.

Here comes the killer…….

"The religious ethics teacher is creative but he does not realize the move goes beyond religious ethics and education curriculum," he said……


Fuck me sideways! Anywhere else in the world there would be immediate action, police on the doorstep, camera crews, activists and perverts thronging to see the perpetrator brought to justice. Indonesia – meh!

The Yoga Fatwa

Yup, they have done it again…Indonesia’s Ulema Council, a group of Muslims who choose what is right or wrong for the countries faithful met last week to debate on what pleasures they could deny the populace.

This time …Yoga! Although Malaysia with a large Indian Hindu population adopted this stance a few weeks ago, it was thought unlikely that Indonesia would follow suit.

The main reason appears to be that while contorting oneself into positions that only gymnasts and porn stars seem to be capable off the council is worried that during their exercises the Yoga crowd may start involving themselves with Hindu rituals like chanting

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Try chanting Om Mani Padmi Om with your right leg twisted around your neck while your left hand is grasping your leg at a 90 degree angle to the rest of your body.

The Ulema cannot make this declaration constitutionally legal, but, here, whatever they say will “go” as the masses trust them to determine sin from good through the issuance of religious Fatwa’s (decrees).

I always understood Yoga to be a mix of physical exercise (read fucking weird contortions) and mental training (read shutting the senses down to ignore the fact that your big toe is lodged firmly in your ear while your nose is immersed in your anus) and that religious matters were furthest from your mind, rather one would be concentrating on how to unravel themselves later.

It seems that members of the council issued their decree after investigators “investigated” gyms and private yoga classes full of nubile young female practitioners in spandex leotards stuck in the half lotus (known as the Jenna Jameson) and the Floating Lily (where one relaxes in preparation for a “spit roasting” with A2M and a DP threesome) and chanted Hindu mantra’s like “Acha TK Gando Bukri Chod” (translated incorrectly as “come and get it big boy I’m ready for some action)

It has to be said in fairness that the same issues have been raised in the USA by Christian Redneck Bible Belt Fundamentalists who claim that it’s Hindu origin is heathen, while, it appears that in Israel it is “frowned upon” but not worthy of a scathing attack such as was made upon Gaza this month.

In Malaysia, there were protests against the ruling and eventually the Malaysian Prime Minister backed down saying that it was OK as long as there was no chanting….

So, it appears that this form of exercise can disrupt the faithful from their beliefs, no matter what the religion and is possible of corrupting religious values. As part of researching this post I googled for images of “Yoga Porn” and yes, it can disrupt one’s thoughts and if I were religious I would certainly ban such a pernicious activity…..

Nearly forgot, the Ulema Council's AGM also issued Fatwa’s on voting, smoking and a few other minor issues, which, understandably have created waves with responses from politicians and tobacco manufacturers….

Watch this space for more fucked up edicts!

Got to go, I need a cup of coffee to kick start the day but I think I'll just be normal about drinking it...