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Indonesia's Bluenoses Stymied

Indonesia's Bluenoses Stymied

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Feb 27, 2009
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For all the global concern that Indonesia is increasingly in the thrall of fundamentalist Islam, a huge number of its 220 million-odd citizens have greeted the implementation of the country's strict anti-pornography law with typical Indonesian civil disobedience. They have largely ignored it.

The jaipongan, the swaying, sensuous Javanese dance that kicke…

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