Amazing photography by Nico Fredia [1x] which showcases the rural living, people and landscape of Indonesia, presumably shot in Banten Province where the photographer is residing. Image via Pondly…
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Miss Universe 2011 – Beauty in Indonesia
Video of Miss Universe Leila Lopes’s recent visit to Indonesia, and also a bit of cultural lesson about the beauty perspective in the country (which is applicable to many parts of Asia) where a lighter skin colour is considered an epitome of beauty…
Miss Indonesia Nadine Alexandra is also featured with her two cents.
The Raid (2011) movie trailer
Trailer for Indonesian film, The Raid, which won plaudits at the Toronto Film Festival last month. Some say it’s one of the best action movie in years; and there’s also news that it’s getting a Hollywood remake. Violent content warning…
Pretty enthralling trailer. The storyline is simple – about a SWAT team being entrapped in a safe house for the world’s most dangerous assassins and gangsters. Plenty of flying bullets, close combat battle and Silat, a form of Southeast Asian martial arts.
Movie directed by Welsh born Gareth Evans and starred Iko Uwais, a real life Silat master. This is the duo’s second collaboration.
Indonesian politician caught watching porn during parliament meeting
An Indonesian legislator from the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has resigned after he was caught browsing a pornography website with his iPad during a parliament meeting last week.
The 50-year-old lawmaker, known as Arifinto, was spotted watching a naughty movie during a House plenary session on Thursday. Arifinto defended himself that he clicked an email link not knowing that he was being led to a racy site, but the photographer who captured his act insisted that Arifinto opened the clip from a folder on his tablet and not from an email.
The politician is forced to resign regardless. And his trouble doesn’t end there, as he could be charged (and jailed) under Indonesia’s controversial anti-pornography bill, which ironically was passed in 2008 with strong backing from PKS.
Indonesia jails rocker Ariel for sex tape
An Indonesian court has sentenced pop star Nazril Irham, better known as Ariel, to three-and-a-half years in prison after sex tapes of him with two tv celebrities appeared online.
The 29-year-old frontman of popular rock band Peterpan/Noah was found guilty for “giving an opportunity for others to spread, produce and prepare a pornographic video.”
The two videos, which were made public in June 2010, showed Ariel having sex on separate occasions with female television celebrities Luna Maya (pic) and Cut Tari, who is married to another man. Ariel has always denied distributing them, claiming that they had been stolen and uploaded without permission.
Unfortunately for him, making the clips is bad enough under the controversial Indonesian anti-pornography law which came into effect in 2008.
Indonesia’s Mount Bromo volcanic eruption
Indonesia’s Mount Bromo, a famous tourist spot which I had the opportunity to visit last year, has erupted. Photos via Chinanews [Cn] on December 24…
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