Censorship Screen for Sexual Movies on Indonesian Films; Does it really help?- faruqubaidillah.wordpress.com

Recently, in Indonesia myriad debates and criticism on Indonesian movies which expose artists’ sexual attitudes have been rising up over the past three years. This, certainly because such attitudes are extremely hazardous for people’s psychology especially the youths. The debates lead to a question on why this sexual scene is still permitted. On another front, many people arguably state that censorship for this scene is really needed to cope with the problem. Again, this argument is still debatable; Does censorship deal the problem or create another problem that is devalue of artists’ work and creativity? Here, I would like to invite you, readers, to cope with this problem clearly through several defensive arguments and opposite ones as well. Myriad people state that censorship is needed in this case, while others believe that this yields negative values on the artwork of Indonesian movies.

What people focus on is that the movie mostly presents unethical attitudes of the artists. Simply put, young generation watching it will be easily affected, and not to mention, they will happen to actualize what they have watched, if this possibly happens. On the other hand, the argument in favor of this is still questionable. It can be against through these facts. Firstly, TV stations have categorized and specialize Indonesian movies into BO, SU, and R (parents’ guidance, all ages, and teenagers only). Certainly, this is enough to show the effort to decrease the negative values of sexual movies on TV. Another is, of course, I think people are mature enough to decide whether this is a good movie for them or not. And therefore, no need to put censorship on this scene.

What also important is that people argue censorship is the best way to prevent such negative values. Only a part of the sexual action is censored here, while others are not. On this statement, they arguably support it. They claim that the censor will never be a disruptive part on the movie, as it is only a small part on the scene. However, I think it is invalid. Movie is made to appreciate the artists’ work. Therefore, it must present all artists’ action during the movie runs. Doing censor in this case will only devalue of the artists’ work. Additionally, what artists have done is useless when it is censored right?

Afterwards, arguments in favor of banning this censorship on sexual movies are straightforward. Clearly, such as BO, SU and R regulation is enough to prevent the negative values provided by the movies. Also, doing no censor on the movie means to appreciate the artists’ work. This appreciation is s must due to the big effort that artists have done to succeed the movie ant to make it interesting for all people. Furthermore, creativity of the artists will constantly appear during the movie if there is no nay censorship. Thus, in my view, there is no need to have this sexual movie censored. What we need is to appreciate the artists’ creativity whatever it is, as not all people can do what artists do significantly.