The bill states not only that anyone engaging in obscene public acts such as spouses kissing, women showing their navels and people sunbathing could be arrested, but it also says that anyone has the right to detain the offenders.

Some traditional dancing, such as the hip-gyrating that often accompanies the folk-pop dangdut music and is hugely popular with the lower classes, would also be branded as pornographic, as would visual art and performances depicting people not fully clothed and some local costumes, from Javanese outfits where women bare their shoulders to those of Papuans who wear nothing but a penis sheath.