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FPI Snubs Playboy Model Pamela Anderson's Disaster Aid
Jakarta Globe | November 02, 2010

Pamela Anderson plans to donate earnings from her Playboy cover shoot to help disaster victims. (AFP Photo/Leon Neal) Pamela Anderson plans to donate earnings from her Playboy cover shoot to help disaster victims. (AFP Photo/Leon Neal)
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SirAnthonyKnown-Bender
10:33am Nov 3, 2010

We're all born naked. Even members of the FPI who seem to live in biological denial and who have been indoctrinated into a misogynistic cult of bodily self disgust. Years and years of virginity, fear of women and simultaneous fascination of and repulsion from the making of the beast with two backs...is this approach to life going to make their mental states more or less eroticized?


forgetyourself
8:46am Nov 3, 2010

@oleleho: You make a good point, but what you consider to be an "unacceptable act" is only your opinion. In Bali recently, I saw a whole village bathing in a river completely naked. In Papua some tribal people live naked all the time. In Europe, women will often sunbathe topless at the beach. This may also be 'unacceptable behavior" for for you, but for others it is really quite normal. Let me continue, Saudi men get aroused by only seeing a woman's hair, or legs. This is because they are not used to seeing a womans hair. So, for Saudi men, it is unacceptable to see a womans hair in public. These are all different views of life. So, let the victims of the disaster decide if they think it is acceptable to receive her donation

Putrimawar
8:27am Nov 3, 2010

Habib Umar Salim, how much have you and FPI donated to victims in Mentawai? So far you and your FPI thugs have only created violence everywhere. We do not need FPI in Indonesia. You must dissolve FPI. If you really wants to create a group like FPI, you should go home to Yemen and do it there. Indonesia has no place for people like you. You are not welcome here. Go home to Yemen and never come back!

Roland
7:42am Nov 3, 2010

@BlueJoe - I actually think it is rather the rancid remark of the FPI who brought the charity of Anderson into the spotlight in the first place...

...but agreed, I also do not like people who point explicitly out how philanthropic they are (or not!, eg “FPI is operating an aid center for Merapi victims, why don’t you [the media] write about that? Don’t just write that the FPI can only kill people,”

kales
7:08am Nov 3, 2010

I say let Indonesians know exactly who the individuals and countries are which provide aid to Indonesia. By far most Indonesians are blissfully unaware they receive aid at all. They would also be quite surprised which countries do not provide them with any aid.

Jakarta. Former “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson has donated $25,000 from a Playboy cover shoot to a charity that helps disaster victims in Indonesia, only to find her pledge of help snubbed by members of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front.

“I’ve just shot another Playboy cover that will debut in January for Hugh Hefner, at his request — I adore him. Playboy and I decided to do this, so I could donate earnings from the shoot to Waves for Water,” Anderson said on her Web site.

However, Anderson’s intention to donate money to victims in Indonesia was challenged by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), which declared the donation haram, or forbidden, because the money was obtained through what it deemed an immoral act.

“If she wants to do nude shoots, it means she is challenging a bigger disaster to happen in Indonesia. It’s haram,” Habib Umar Salim, the head of FPI’s advisory council, was quoted as saying by Metro TV.

“FPI is operating an aid center for Merapi victims, why don’t you [the media] write about that? Don’t just write that the FPI can only kill people,” he added.

Waves for Water has helped people in Sumatra and Bali, as well as communities in Haiti and Chile affected by disaster.

According to its Web site, following the 2009 Padang quake, it distributed 200 filters to help  2,000 people access clean water.

In Bali, it helped 37 poor villages get clean drinking water.

“It’s an amazing group that supplies water filters to countries that are in need of clean drinking water. It has already made a huge difference in Indonesia, Pakistan and Haiti. I’m so honored to work with Playboy again to support this life-altering cause!” Anderson wrote on her site.

The FPI also protested against the Indonesian version of Playboy magazine. 

The short-lived local version of the magazine published its first issue in April 2006.

It released its sixth and final issue in February 2007, and did not publish nude pictures in any issue.

The ruckus was followed by a police investigation that resulted in Playboy editor Erwin Arnanda and two members of the publishing company, Velvet Silver Media, being charged with violating an indecency article in the Criminal Code.

Erwin has just started serving a two-year jail term for his indecency conviction, which he is challenging.