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Semarang. Oops, it happened again. Just months after sexual innuendo was introduced into an examination for elementary school students in East Java, students and teachers in Central Java have been subjected to a similar shock.

Suharyanto, from the Central Java Police, told the Jakarta Globe that his officers had launched an investigation into just how textbooks containing sexual innuendo and even images of scantily clothed women had been distributed to elementary and Islamic schools in Batang and Pekalongan.

“We hope to capture the perpetrator soon and stop the [books’] circulation in schools,” Suharyanto said. “Local police have already started an investigation.”

According to news portal detik.com, the textbooks, covering a range of subjects from social sciences to natural sciences and poetry, contained images of a woman in her underwear and another of a woman wearing see-through clothing.

In the poetry textbook, a line reads, “I surrender my sword into your gap,” detik.com reported.

Seto Mulyadi, chairman of the National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas Anak), told the Globe on Monday night that he had already received reports about the the pornographic textbooks circulating in Pekalongan.

“As far as I know, the books were issued by PT Erlangga and were not intended for students, but as a kind of health book for teachers,” Seto said. “I do not know what went wrong, whether it was the book salesperson or a teacher that allowed the books to end up in a library to be read by students.”

When asked about the distribution of the textbooks in Batang, Seto was surprised.

“How come? If that is so, it is more than just usual negligence,” Seto said. “We must investigate whether there is a deliberate effort to issue or include pornographic material to disrupt the image of national education and the morality of the young.”

He said he was sending a letter to the head of the Central Java Education Agency strongly recommending that he investigate.

“I hope police will also help bybanning the books from schools and other areas,” he said.

Kunto Nugroho, head of the agency, told detik.com that his agency was not to blame and asked the public to refrain from jumping to conclusions ahead of an investigation.

In the East Java scandal that broke in October, sixth grade students taking an Indonesian language examination were asked to read a letter to a newspaper titled “Naughty Businessman Caged Along With Mak Erot.”

It describes a businessman who was punished for selling out-of-date food and drink by being put in a cage with Mak Erot and having “his eggplant smeared with balm.”

Mak Erot was a legendary healer from West Java who specialized in enlarging men’s genitals.