VOA慢速英语2019 西爪哇限制“成人”外国流行歌曲（在线收听）

West Java Restricts ‘Adult’ Foreign Pop Songs

Indonesia’s most populous province has set restrictions on when more than 80 English language songs can be broadcast.

印尼人口最多的省份对80多首英文歌曲的播放时段进行了限制。

The West Java provincial broadcast commission identified 85 songs its members consider “adult” because of their offensive language. It said that local radio and television stations can only play such music between 10 at night and 3 in the morning.

西爪哇省广播委员会将85首外国歌曲判定为“成人”等级，因为这些歌曲使用了冒犯性的词汇。报道称，当地电台和电视台只能在晚上10点至凌晨3点时段播放此类音乐。

The songs include Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You, Ariana Grande’s Love Me Harder and That’s What I Like by Bruno Mars.

这些歌曲包括Ed Sheeran的《Shape of You》，Ariana Grande的《Love Me hard》以及Bruno Mars的《What I Like》。

Indonesia is the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country. It has seen a rise in restrictions on subjects or behavior considered pornographic. The country is officially secular, meaning there is no state religion. But local lawmakers sometimes pass laws based on sharia or Islamic law.

印尼是全球最大的穆斯林占多数的国家。该国对色情题材或行为的限制有所增加。这个国家是正式的世俗国家——意味着没有国家宗教。但是当地立法者有时会通过以伊斯兰教教义为准则的法律。

Broadcast programs are barred from having songs and/or video that show or contain “obscenities, sex...and drugs,” said Neneng Athiatul Faiziyah, a member of the commission. She said the action followed public comments on the issue. There were similar objections over thousands of songs, she said.

该委员会成员费其雅（Neneng Athiatul Faiziyah）指出，广播节目不得播放带有或包含“淫秽、色情以及毒品内容”的歌曲或视频。”她说，这一行动是在公众对该问题发表评论后采取的。她说，数千首歌曲也遭到了类似的抵制。

Faiziyah said that she and other members were also making a list of Indonesian language songs they considered “adult”.

费其雅说，她和其他成员也在制定他们认为达到“成人”等级的印尼语歌曲名单。

West Java is home to 48 million people. It is known for being among the most conservative provinces in Indonesia.

西爪哇省有4800万人口。它是印尼最保守的省份之一。

At the national level, Indonesia already has strong anti-pornography laws. Critics say these measures can be misused to threaten tolerance or creative expression in the Southeast Asian country.

在国家层面，印尼已经制定了严格的反色情法。批评人士指出，这些法律可能会被滥用，威胁到这个东南亚国家的包容以及创造性表达。

Last month, Indonesia’s parliament dropped a music bill after protests by artists and rights activists who were concerned that it could restrict freedom of expression.

上个月，印尼议会放弃了一项音乐法案，原因是艺术家和人权活动人士担心该法案可能限制言论自由。

The bill included wording that aimed to prevent the creation of music considered to include bad influences from foreign cultures. The Jakarta Post newspaper said it also was designed to control influences that could incite violence or illegal behaviors.

该法案的条文旨在防止创作被认为含有外国文化不良影响的音乐。《雅加达邮报》称，该法案的目的还包括控制可能引发暴力或非法行为的影响。

Words in This Story

pornographic – adj. of or involving images or writing meant to produce an intense emotional reaction

obscenity – n. an extremely offensive word or expression

tolerance – n. the ability to accept something