The last time I purchased a copy of Playboy was in the late 90s because Fay Resnick was in it, believing it would become a valuable collector's item. If you live in Indonesia you may want to stock up on the country's new local Playboy edition because it may not be on the shelves for very long:

A toned-down edition of Playboy magazine went on sale Friday in Indonesia, defying threats of protests by Islamic hardliners who called the publication a form of moral terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

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One hardline group, the Islamic Defenders Front, pledged to forcefully remove the magazines from shops.

"The first edition might be tame, but it will get more vulgar," said group spokesman Tubagus Muhamad Sidik. "Even if it had no pictures of women in it, we would still protest it because of the name."

Of course. But the pre-emptive de-nudification of the magazine has probably prevented some Jakarta-based American assets going up in flames this weekend.

The notion of a Hefner publication in Indonesia somehow brought back some memories of Jakara's seedier history and I googled the name of the place that deservedly owned the sobriquet "sleaziest spot in the world". Unbeknownst to me, it turned out that Islamists had a hand in the demise of the infamous Tanamur too:

Secondly, there was the security issue which came to the fore when Tanamur's adjacent sister club JJ's was raided by the FPI (Indonesian Islamic Front) a few years back. Also, rather incongruously, one of the biggest mosques in Jakarta has been built just opposite the club.

Remember: we all believed that with democracy Indonesia would become freer and more westernized. It seems the reverse is true.