Indonesia Playboy editor acquitted!

A court cleared the editor of Playboy Indonesia on Thursday of distributing indecent pictures to the public and making money from them after a high-profile trial that exposed deep divisions in the Muslim-majority nation.

Editor-in-chief Erwin Arnada had argued the magazine was good for developing a pluralistic society, while the prosecution and Islamic hardliners who have regularly attended his high-profile trial said he had “harmed the nation’s morals.”

Efran Basuni, the presiding judge at the South Jakarta court, said the prosecution’s arguments “could not be accepted” and “were not diligent” because they failed to take account of Indonesian media laws created after the 1998 downfall of President Suharto’s regime that ushered in press freedom.

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