Indonesia: Dirty Dancer
6 minutes, 2004
Ref: 348

Her stage show is causing a sensation in Indonesia, outraging conservative clerics who want her banned, delighting her army of fans from the villages of Java. She has defied her critics with an electrical performance in her home town of Surabaya, East Java, where she had been prevented from performing. The storm over Inul goes to the heart of a bitter fight over how strict Islam should be in the world's most populous and traditionally liberal Muslim country.