Indonesian Playboy launches today

Playboy, the world famous men’s magazine, known as much for its interviews as its photos, went on sale in Indonesia today. Playboy Indonesia did not contain photos of nude models like its foreign version, but models in lingerie.

Still the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) loonies, threatened to forcefully remove the magazines from legitimate businesses selling them. According to a FPI spokesman, Playboy is a ‘icon of pornography’ even if the local version did not contain pornography. So I guess pornography extends to your own mind imagining pornographic content in something. The spokesman went on to say that if legal means to stop Playboy didn’t work, people would take matters into their own hands.

The laughable thing about this is other magazines and promotional material in Indonesia is way more provocative than Playboy.