‘In Your Face,’ Tempo Appears to Tell Police
Jakarta Globe | July 02, 2010
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383834gwatson........I think you are over reacting slightly. ChrisH was just making light.
ChrisH........if you enjoy eating pork don't seek out the reasons why Muslims don't eat pork.
Me, I'm off to Ibu Oka.
@ChrisH:
While I have no problem with the pig in the cover (I think it's quite funny and witty), I'm not sure why you have to use disparaging remarks towards our beliefs with pigs in Islam. Obviously there is a bigger issue with pigs than "being dirty", and the fact that you are belittling our belief is quite insulting. I know you'd never say that to a Muslim to his or her face, but the internet is the best way to be anonymous and post hateful things...
While I know there have been *some* tensions between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia, those beliefs belong to some uptight idiots, when in reality most Muslims are not bad people, as you most likely know. (I'm assuming that you live in Indonesia, and interact with Muslim Indonesians often, as well as Indonesians of other beliefs.)
Great stuff Tempo...
What did pigs ever do wrong to be "haram" other than being a bit dirty at times?
These guys are way more haram and dirty (not guilty until proven, you're right)
It's really clever artwork.
In your face!
I can only say that this is brilliant artwork.
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Tempo magazine appears to have thumbed its nose at threats of legal action from the National Police.
Police had been threatening to sue the weekly magazine for the caricature on the cover of its latest edition depicting a police officer leading three piggy banks on a leash — not the story itself on the suspiciously large bank accounts of high-ranking members of the force.
Pork is forbidden for Muslims to eat, and the term pig is considered a strong insult to most Indonesians, though Tempo has denied any such links, saying the piggy banks represented the bank accounts referred to in the story and that they were ready to defend themselves in court.
In the English edition of the issue out on Thursday, the cover art has been changed but one of the piggy banks, has been moved directly in the face of an anonymous senior police officer.
The name of the article has also been changed to "Police in a Poke," which is a play on the idiom "pig in a poke." The idiom refers to a confidence trick in which a fraudster sells a victim a cat in a bag rather than the more desired pig in a bag.
Wahyu Muryadi, editor-in-chief of Tempo, downplayed suggestions that the reworked cover was a statement, saying the artwork for the two editions had been decided upon as part of one package "days ago."
National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang said he could not comment because he had not seen the edition.
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