Indonesia is not exactly a country where you can let the breasts hang out – it is now-a-days almost also only on the Spanish beaches, nudist campgrounds, it is common.
However, the flasher The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, like its attributes without problems, but two naked mermaid statues in the indonesian amusement park Ancol Dreamland, it was still too much.
It writes The Independent.
the theme Park, based in the capital Jakarta, wanted to make the place more ‘family-friendly’, and therefore the breasts now been removed from people’s eyes.
– Ancol trying to get to an amusement park and destination for families, says their spokesperson Rika Lestari.
Taking one now to Ancol Dreamland, you will be able to see that havfruernes tits instead covered with a shiny piece of fabric in gold. Almost like a golden tube-top.
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the Artist behind believe that people are being robbed of the art’s beauty. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
the Park’s explanation is that the cover is part of their policy to respect the ‘eastern values’.
Indonesia is a mainly muslim nation, but the country is also secular, and therefore, you will be able to find both covered men and women, as people in short dresses, T-shirts and shorts.
The visitors in Ancol Dreamland, however, was not the trace satisfied with the new measures.
Since the breasts were covered, and has the park’s guests repeatedly torn peaks of the ‘poor’ mermaids.
the Statues have since been transferred to another part of the amusement park.
the Sculptor himself is also not satisfied with neither the cover or the relocation of the havfruerne. The artist by the name of Dolorosa Sinaga believes that the Ancol Dreamland has ‘been deprived of art and beauty’.
– What they did was to shut the public access to enjoy the art, she says to BBC Indonesia.
In september was a ‘undervandsskulptur-museum’ in the Maldives was torn down, after the government had declared it ‘anti-islamic.’
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