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Indonesian parents get ‘porn’ textbook banned

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Robby Soave Reporter
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Indonesian officials removed a reading textbook that describes a sexual encounter in a brothel, after parents complained that the school was exposing their children to pornography.

The textbook was required reading for 11-year-olds in Bogor, a city near Jakarta in Muslim-dominated Indonesia. It contained the story, “The Shepherd Boy and Wolf Mother,” which features a sex scene between a man and a prostitute.

The story reads like erotic fiction, according to Fox News:”In the dimly lit place where women sell their bodies, his Adam’s apple bobbed up and down upon seeing the beauty of the woman. She trembled in the arms of the man, and just like the fluorescent lights in the room, she felt that she herself was on fire.”

The scene was considered offensive by parents, who complained to local officials.

“The story in the book read like a porn story,” said Ajwar, a parent, in a statement to the Jakarta Globe.

Officials ordered the school to remove the book, and asked the school to ask for permission before making more unauthorized additions to the curriculum.

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