Nazriel Ariel was interviewed from inside a cell room prior to his trial in Bandung in November 2010. -- PHOTO: AFP
BANDUNG - AN INDONESIAN court played sequences from a rock star's sxx videos at his trial on Monday for allegedly spreading the clips on the Internet in breach of an anti-pxrnxgraphy law.
The closed hearing also heard testimony from television celebrity Cut Tari, 33, who told reporters outside court that she had admitted to having sx with singer Nazril Ariel, 29, in one of the videos.
If convicted, Ariel faces 12 years in jail and fines of up to six billion rupiah (S$880,000) for offences including distributing pxrnxgraphy on the Internet.
'I confessed that it was me in the video and the man was Ariel,' said Tari, wearing a black blazer and accompanied by her husband.
Reporters were not allowed inside the courtroom in Bandung, West Java, but they were allowed to peer through the windows. They saw Tari approach the bench to view a brief segment of one of the offending videos on a laptop.
The trial is being held behind closed doors to protect public morals in the mainly Muslim country, where the sx scandal - dubbed 'Peterpxrn' after Ariel's band Peterpan - has caused a national sensation. -- AFP
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