‘Vulgar’ Lady Gaga faces mass protest in Indonesia

Little Monsters – as Lady Gaga fans are called – tweeted their determination
to see the pop idol perform in Indonesia, 90 percent of whose 240,000
million inhabitants identify themselves as Muslim.

“Little Monsters Indonesia vs FPI. I’m ready to fight,” Bentaniokevin tweeted
to the LadyGagaIndo Twitter account.

“What?!! The FPI want to cancel Lady Gaga’s concert? They don’t know art!! She
is the lady of art!! GAGA I’m waitin for you.. See u soon,” nataliahaman
tweeted.

One page on Facebook, which is wildly popular in Indonesia, was seeking
dancers for a Lady
Gaga
flashmob, which sees people perform a choreographed dance in a
public place.

The flashmob is “to show our appreciation to Lady Gaga for planning to visit
and to tell others who don’t approve of her that there’s nothing wrong with
being her fans,” said Anggiat Sihombing, an 18-year-old university student
who set up the LadyGagaIndo account.

“We like her because she is a famous musician who makes use of her popularity
to do good deeds, like establishing a foundation to protect kids who have
been bullied.”

The Lady Gaga Indonesia Facebook page has more than 42,000 “likes”.

“Lady Gaga is not an ordinary human being. She uses her popularity to defend
minority groups, especially gays and lesbians,” said Hartoyo, general
secretary of gay rights group OurVoice, who goes by one name. “I would die
for her,” he said.

Despite the opposition to her tour, the “Poker Face” singer has not toned down
her performances – at the Seoul show on April 27 she rode onto the stage on
horseback, wearing a black bodysuit and an enormous black metal headpiece.

There were small protests outside the show, with two foreign Christian
protestors holding placards that read “Lady Gaga. Go home!” and “Sexual
purity, virginity, fidelity”, while about 20 South Korean Christian
activists prayed.

In the Philippines, a youth organisation urged people to stay away from the
star’s May 21 concert, saying it posed a threat to moral values in Asia’s
largest Catholic nation.

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