Religious lecture held for VCDs vendors

Religious lecture held for VCDs vendors

JAKARTA: The West Jakarta mayoralty has started to conduct
religious lectures for vendors of pirated video compact discs
(VCDs) in Glodok on Friday, in the hope that the religious
approach could reduce the rampant sales of pornographic VCDs.

The lectures will be conducted twice a week.

The lectures, presented by preachers of Islamic, Catholic,
Protestant, Buddhist and Hindu preachers, are aimed at "giving
the vendors a spiritual 'shower' so they no longer feel right
about selling pornographic VCDs," said committee member
Fachrurazy, A.H.

"Eradicating the sale of porn VCDs is not an easy job here
because vendors are too busy to go to monasteries to hear
religious sermons. They forget that religion forbids the selling
(of pornographic items)," he was quoted by beritajakarta.com.

Glodok is one of the centers of pirated VCDs. Most vendors in
Glodok display pornographic VCDs openly.

With the support of the police, the mayoralty has occasionally
conducted raids on the contraband goods, but to no avail. -- JP