Nude Free Playboy Furore in Muslim Indonesia
There are no nudes and the cover is anything but X-rated, but Playboy magazine still sparked a furore when it hit newsstands in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Indonesia's first edition of the monthly features pictures of underwear-clad women baring at most midriffs, thighs and cleavage, making it no more risque than local editions of British men's magazines FHM and Maxim already on sale here.
While Muslim hardliners prepared to protest the launch of the magazine, some readers who paid 39,000 rupiah (about four dollars) were disappointed by the lack of saucy pictures.
"It's sinful to read Playboy if there's no nudity!" a caller to Jakarta's 68H radio said. "It's a scandal! There's no nude women in the magazine. I think we have been deceived," another caller complained.
