Video game with Mao's picture

Video game with Mao's picture

BANDAR LAMPUNG, Lampung: The provincial prosecution office is
currently investigating reports that a video game containing the
picture of communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong has been
circulating in the area.

The authorities are also investigating reports that a book
entitled Glass House, a translation of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's
Rumah Kaca which has been banned by the Attorney General's office
in Jakarta, is on sale in the province.

Head of political affairs at the attorney office's said
yesterday that the authorities were tracing the circulation of
the video game. They called on the general public to immediately
report to the police if they happen to see the banned goods on
sale, Antara reported.

Indonesia outlawed communism in 1966 in the wake of an
abortive coup by the Indonesian Communist Party a year earlier.
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