Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Celebrities in porn videos can likely be named suspects

Chief of the National Police Investigation Division Commissioner General Ito Sumardi said all the celebrities in the porn videos could likely be named suspects.

"They can be named suspects. We are just waiting for their further questionings," he said here Tuesday in response to a question on whether all those in the porn videos could be named suspects.

The video scandal involved Rockband singer "Ariel Peterpan", actress-host Luna Maya and model Cut Tari has attracted public attention over the past months.
Ariel himself had even named suspect and detained by the police.

Sumardi said Luna Maya and Cut Tari would again to be questioned in the near future. "They are hopefully questioned again this week. We can then decide their status," he said.

The two had so far maintained their status as witnesses regarding this controversial porn videos, he said.

Sumardi further said that the police had got a person suspected as the first person who uploaded the video to the Internet. The suspect was only identified as K.

The police investigators still probed into some evidence, including laptop that might have been used for uploading the porn videos.

This video scandal has attracted public and media attention in Indonesia.
It had also triggered rallies from various elements in the society, including those of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI).

Several hundreds of the HTI-Solo Chapter`s backers had recently staged a rally against what they called Indonesians involving in free sex and pornography.

Bringing various posters and chanting "freeing Indonesia from pornography and free sex", the HTI demonstrators marched for two kilometers before stopping at Gladag Roundabout.

In his speech, the demonstration coordinator, Erland Alfath Fathonie, said the porn video scandal involving a pop rocker, top model, and TV presenter was a fact of worsening free sex practices.

The sex tape videos circulated to public through internet by unknown people was also the fact of a double edge razor of the information technological devices, he said.
Instead of IT devices` positiveness, they also had the negative sides, he said and urged law enforcers to take stern action against those involved in the scandal and those disseminating the videos.

HTI also called on the related authorities to halt the dissemination of those sex tape videos and other porn materials to the public for the sake of the nation.

Young Indonesians need also be protected from those porn videos and materials by teaching them religious values, he said.(*)

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