Yesterday, I read the article “Alleged celebrity sex tape shocks modest Indonesia” on CNN website. The leak out of the sex video clips of Indonesian super star Ariel and his two girl friends’ sex video last the hot button in last week in Indonesia. The unprecedented sex video clips shocked the modest Indonesian.
It was reported that Ariel’s computer was stolen, thus all of his private videos were exposed and some of them were uploaded to the internet. After that, the photos and videos were widely spread on twitter, facebook such media texts.
The scandal triggers the debate of whether education about sex. The Minister of Education Muhammad Nuh emphasizes “NO”. Instead, he suggested schools to search students’ mobile phones to protect them from the widely dissemination of the video clips. Although new media speed the development of democracy, the dissemination of such video severe threats the rules and cultural norms to a religious society. This is also the reason why Ariel and those girls are facing sentence, be punished for their immorality behavior. In addition, the celebrities are encountering the protestors’ condemning in conservative Islamic groups. This issue calls for the government’s action to reinforce the nationwide internet censorship. "The spread of this video is very worrying, especially if the government or the information minister try to use it to implement a ministerial regulation on new media content," the chairman of the Alliance of Independent Journalists, Nezar Patria, told the New York Times.
It was reported that Ariel’s computer was stolen, thus all of his private videos were exposed and some of them were uploaded to the internet. After that, the photos and videos were widely spread on twitter, facebook such media texts.
The scandal triggers the debate of whether education about sex. The Minister of Education Muhammad Nuh emphasizes “NO”. Instead, he suggested schools to search students’ mobile phones to protect them from the widely dissemination of the video clips. Although new media speed the development of democracy, the dissemination of such video severe threats the rules and cultural norms to a religious society. This is also the reason why Ariel and those girls are facing sentence, be punished for their immorality behavior. In addition, the celebrities are encountering the protestors’ condemning in conservative Islamic groups. This issue calls for the government’s action to reinforce the nationwide internet censorship. "The spread of this video is very worrying, especially if the government or the information minister try to use it to implement a ministerial regulation on new media content," the chairman of the Alliance of Independent Journalists, Nezar Patria, told the New York Times.
