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Indonesian police on Tuesday moved to cancel Lady Gaga’s sold-out June 3 show in Jakarta by denying a crucial concert permit. ”The National Police said verbally that [the concert] would not be permitted,” police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto told the Jakarta Globe. The decision came after protest groups, including the Islamic Defenders Front, or FPI, assembled on the streets of the capital to denounce the “dangerous” singer, warning that her “Satanic lyrics” could “destroy the children’s sense of morality.”
Anti-Gaga protesters went so far as to threaten to send FPI members to block the singer’s arrival at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport: “We will stop her from setting foot on our land,” FPI Jakarta chairman Salim Alatas told the AFP. “She had better not dare spread her satanic faith in this country.”
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Anti-Gaga protesters went so far as to threaten to send FPI members to block the singer’s arrival at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport: “We will stop her from setting foot on our land,” FPI Jakarta chairman Salim Alatas told the AFP. “She had better not dare spread her satanic faith in this country.”
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/15/...#ixzz1uwZYP22h