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The West Java provincial broadcast commission
identified 85 songs labeled "adult" that can only be aired
between 10 pm and 3 am. These include Ed Sheeran's "Shape of
You", Bruno Mars' "That's What I Like" and Ariana Grande's "Love
Me Harder".
The world's biggest Muslim-majority country has seen a rise in
restrictions on content or behavior deemed pornographic,
sometimes through local bylaws based on sharia in the officially
secular country.
"Broadcast programmes are prohibited from containing songs
and/or video clips that display or contain obscenities,
sex...and drugs," Neneng Athiatul Faiziyah, a member of the
commission, said on Tuesday.
She said the action followed complaints from the public and
there were similar objections over thousands of songs.
Faiziyah said the broadcast commission was also drawing up a
list of Indonesian language songs considered "adult".
West Java is home to 48 million people and is known for being
among the most conservative provinces in Indonesia.
At the national level, Indonesia already has strict
anti-pornography laws that critics say can be misused to
threaten tolerance or creative expression in the Southeast Asian
country.
Indonesia's parliament last month dropped a draft music bill
after protests by artists and rights activists who were
concerned that it could restrict freedom of expression.
The bill included articles that aimed to prevent the creation of
music deemed to bring in negative influences from foreign
cultures or that could incite the public to acts of violence or
to break the law, the Jakarta Post newspaper said.
(Reporting by Agustinus Beo Da Costa; Writing by Kanupriya
Kapoor; Editing by Ed Davies and Nick Macfie)
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