Balinese legislators, artists and tourism operators join forces on Friday opposing the endorsement of the pornography bill by the Indonesian parliament.
Bikini-clad tourist center of Bali island may have to cover up if the law is passed across the country. The bill could be passed this week.
The Balineses came into the parliament building and met with several lawmakers, expressing their disagreement on the law endorsement.
"We want to see chairman of the House, and all others chairmen of factions," I Made Ariaye, a leader of the protesters said.
The porn bill is composed to define pornography and set a moral tone across Indonesia, which most of its 230 million population are Muslims.
Bali, mainly Hindu with easy-going lifestyle, is the center of tourist industry in the country with over 200,000 foreign tourist coming per month.
Indonesia tourist industry has been recovered from the hit of Asian financial crisis in 1997 and terrorism.
The bill has been supported by the country's largest party of Golkar but opposed by second biggest party of the Democratic Party of Struggle.
Source:Xinhua
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