Indonesia burns intimate goods, even those you paid for (5 photos)

Indonesians order hundreds of pleasure products every month, and the government never tires of collecting them and lighting a fire out of these purchases. Because such toys are prohibited in the country.





And so it is repeated again, again, again. During the coronavirus, due to boredom, the mountains of prohibited goods for burning were larger, but now they have reached pre-pandemic levels.

Why is it not allowed?

Yes, various sex toys are prohibited in Indonesia, it is a conservative country. But that's not so bad, in Afghanistan they make fires out of musical instruments, and here they're just using silicone imitators.



In fact, they melt pretty well, the silicone is elastic there

Officials say that they corrupt public morality and regularly intercept shipments, burning them as if they were illegal drugs.

In general, about seven years ago, instant noodles were almost banned in Indonesia. Not because of the taste, but because foreign advertising was too provocative. And the authorities suddenly decided that it was better to ban the phenomenon at once than to fight each individual advertisement later.



This packaging and some videos were ultimately strictly banned

A total of 442 sex toys were destroyed during the raid in Bandung. All of them were ordered from other Asian countries via the Internet; as you understand, there are no stationary stores with such goods in the country.

The largest "supplier of prohibited goods" to Indonesia is China, where 70% of such goods from the global volume are produced. By the way, this sector experienced an incredible boom during the pandemic, sales increased by 50%!

These are the exact volumes of the piles of banned goods to be burned at Indonesian customs.



Goodbye speakers, goodbye guitar, your last song

Such raids have been held regularly since 2015. That is, for more than 10 years the government has been saying: don't buy, we will take them away and burn them.

And people continue to buy! What persistence. It's interesting what percentage slips through unnoticed and reaches the buyer. After all, they stopped ordering them in bulk and now order them individually, asking the seller to pack them tightly.

Customs officials honestly sell themselves out as using X-rays on parcels, but it's not always possible to determine exactly what's inside.



I remind you that this doesn't happen in every state, but only in the most radical state of Indonesia

The persistence of Indonesians is enviable. But then again, why do they burn things they've already paid for? Like the Chinese set up a cemetery of brand new unsold bicycles. Instead of giving them to poor children. Give everything to the children, let them play!