Indonesian Playboy Editor on Trial

(Jakarta, Indonesia) The editor of Playboy Indonesia, Erwin Arnada, is on trial for distributing indecent pictures for money. He faces up to 32 months in prison, if convicted.

Interestingly, Arnada could be sentenced to a harsher term than was given to the mastermind of the Bali bombings. As a reminder, Abu Bakar Bashir (Ba'asyir) received only 25.5 months in prison for orchestrating the murders of 202 innocent civilians in the Bali nightclub bombing.

Therefore, on the scale of seriousness, publishing a racy magazine ranks higher as a criminal act than mass murder in a Muslim country.