An Indonesian Muslim leader has criticized an Indonesian production company for inviting a Japanese adult video star to appear in its new film, a report said.

Indonesian media reported that porn star Maria Ozawa, also known as Miyabi, was to visit Indonesia next month for the shooting of a film titled Menculik Miyabi, or Kidnapping Miyabi, to be produced by Jakarta-based Maxima Pictures.

I suggest they not use the porn star, even if the film is not pornographic, Amidhan, chairman of the Indonesian Council of Muslim Scholars, was quoted as saying by the Detik.com news portal.

It could give Indonesia a bad image for inviting a porn star, said Amidhan. [...er killing lovers by barbaric stoning is what gives Indonesia a bad image]

In the film, the character played by Ozawa is kidnapped while visiting Jakarta by three Indonesian university students who are infatuated with her, according to the Okezone.com news website.

Update: Porn Star can Come

3rd October 2009. Based on article from news.asiaone.com

As debate rages over the planned visit to Indonesia by Japanese porn star Maria Miyabi Ozawa, Communications and Information Minister Mohammad Nuh has said no one can stop her from coming to the country.

As long as she doesn't do any porn activity in Indonesia, then legally, [her visit] can't be prohibited, Nuh said recently.

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has warned that Miyabi must never enter Indonesia, with MUI chairman Ma'aruf Amin saying Miyabi's reputation as a porn star could have an adverse effect on Indonesians.

Nuh noted that the group's opposition Miyabi is not about hatred, but is merely a call for morality.

Update: Porn Star Can't Come

14th October 2009. See article from thejakartaglobe.com

The controversial visit of Japanese porn star Miyabi to shoot a movie in Indonesia has been postponed until an undetermined date, one of the fim's producers said on Monday.

Oddi Mulya Hidayat, from Maxima Pictures, told the Jakarta Globe that after the production house's board of directors met with the film's creative team, they decided to postpone the visit of Miyabi, whose real name is Maria Ozawa, to Jakarta.

Her planned visit and cameo part in a local movie has sparked heated protests from conservative groups in recent weeks, with students in Kudus, Central Java, voicing their disapproval by setting fire to women's underwear on Monday.

Update: Not Our Doing

16th October 2009.  See article from google.com

Indonesia has denied media reports that it had banned a Japanese porn star from visiting the country to film a no-nudity comedy movie.

Culture and tourism ministry official Ukus Kuswara said the film's production company had voluntarily postponed 23-year-old Maria Miyabi Ozawa's visit this week due to pressures from religious groups.

We didn't issue any directive to ban Miyabi's visit to Indonesia, said Kuswara, the ministry's director general for motion pictures, responding to an article in the British press.

It was an initiative taken by the film producer, considering pressures from some groups which were causing a non-conducive environment, he added.

Dozens of members of the militant group of Islamic Defenders Front staged a noisy protest in front of an Indonesian film company that just released a horror movie starring Japanese adult movie actress Maria Ozawa, who is known as Miyabi.

Reject Miyabi, the mother of all sinners, who propagates immoral behavior in this country, group leader Salim Alatas shouted in front of the Maxima Pictures office in West Jakarta.

After an emotional dialogue with a company executive, the protesters grabbed all the movie posters plastered on the office walls, and ripped them up and burned them.

Two days before the same group went to Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Jakarta and threatened to capture Ozawa upon her arrival and send her home.

Police forced the crowd to a parking area in front of the airport office, far from the terminal.

Well-known in Indonesia as Miyabi, which Ozawa used early in her career as an adult video actress, she was to attend the premiere of her second Indonesian movie Hantu Tanah Kusir, (The Ghost of Tanah Kusir Cemetery).

The film followed the success of Menculik Miyabi, (Kidnapping Miyabi), a teen comedy released last May after heated controversy delayed filming and forced scenes featuring her to be made in Tokyo instead of Jakarta.

The movies contain no sex-scenes and have been passed by the Indonesian censor.

The nutter cause has been supported up by some newspapers. Republika daily has dedicated front-page stories opposing Ozawa and other adult movie actress in Indonesian horror movies, including Japanese actresses Rin Sakuragi and Leah Yuzuki and U.S. actress Tera Patrick, although the latter three have not stirred much controversy as they are not as popular as Ozawa. It carried large sketches of the faces of foreign porn actresses that have appeared in Indonesian movies headlined National films on the brink of destruction.