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N SULAWESI TEACHERS REJECT LAW ON PORNOGRAPHY
Manado, North Sulawesi, Nov. 1 (ANTARA) - The Joint Forum of Christian Teachers in North Sulawesi has rejected the newly-passed Law on Pornography, claiming that the law does not reflect what it calls "the spirit of diversity."
"The Law on Pornography should not be applied in North Sulawesi because the local culture and social life can not accept the legilsation," Lucky Rumopa, the forum's chairman, said here on Friday when conveying the aspiration of the forum's members to the North Sulawesi Provincial Legislative Council (DPRD).
North Sulawesi Governor Sarundajang recently also expressed his opposition to the law , saying his stand was based on a decision of North Sulawesi's people.
North Sulawesi's people were disappointed because their aspiration on the Law was ignored, he said.
The North Sulawesi DPRD would file a suit for judicial review by the Constitutional Court and invite other provinces such as Bali, Papua and Yogyakarta to do likewise, Benny Rhamdani, a North Sulawesi DPRD legislator, said.
Meanwhile, in Denpasar, Bali Province, on Friday, Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika and Chairman of the Bali Provincial Legislative Council Ida Bagus Putu Wesnawa, said that the Bali administration could not apply the Law on Pornography because it was against the sociological and philosophical values of the Balinese people.
"On behalf of the Balinese people, regarding the passage of the Bill on Pornography on Thursday, we declare that we can not implement the law," Governor Pastika said.
"We don't reject the Law but we simply cannot apply it here because it is against the philosophical and sociological values of the Balinese people," Wesnawa said.
After years of controversy, the House of Representatives (DPR) on Thursday finally passed the Bill on Pornography into law.
The agreement to pass the bill was reached in a House plenary meeting led by House Speaker Agung Laksono at the Parliament Building on Thursday.
Eight of the House's 10 factions gave their approval to the the bill.
"The Law on Pornography should not be applied in North Sulawesi because the local culture and social life can not accept the legilsation," Lucky Rumopa, the forum's chairman, said here on Friday when conveying the aspiration of the forum's members to the North Sulawesi Provincial Legislative Council (DPRD).
North Sulawesi Governor Sarundajang recently also expressed his opposition to the law , saying his stand was based on a decision of North Sulawesi's people.
North Sulawesi's people were disappointed because their aspiration on the Law was ignored, he said.
The North Sulawesi DPRD would file a suit for judicial review by the Constitutional Court and invite other provinces such as Bali, Papua and Yogyakarta to do likewise, Benny Rhamdani, a North Sulawesi DPRD legislator, said.
Meanwhile, in Denpasar, Bali Province, on Friday, Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika and Chairman of the Bali Provincial Legislative Council Ida Bagus Putu Wesnawa, said that the Bali administration could not apply the Law on Pornography because it was against the sociological and philosophical values of the Balinese people.
"On behalf of the Balinese people, regarding the passage of the Bill on Pornography on Thursday, we declare that we can not implement the law," Governor Pastika said.
"We don't reject the Law but we simply cannot apply it here because it is against the philosophical and sociological values of the Balinese people," Wesnawa said.
After years of controversy, the House of Representatives (DPR) on Thursday finally passed the Bill on Pornography into law.
The agreement to pass the bill was reached in a House plenary meeting led by House Speaker Agung Laksono at the Parliament Building on Thursday.
Eight of the House's 10 factions gave their approval to the the bill.
