Porn movie screened in Indonesian parliament

Indonesia's parliamentarians and attending journalists and bureaucrats came in for a rude shock on Monday when a hardcore pornographic movie was flashed on their monitors for about 15 minutes.

Explicit images apparently taken from the internet filled the screens of the internal information service used by reporters, political staffers and visitors before security guards managed to shut it off, The Australian reported.

The internal information service is used for updates on the nation's political events.

It was, however, not clear how the images appeared on the screens but Speaker Marzuki Alie said whoever was responsible would be punished.

"Whoever hacked the screens is insolent and will be reported to the authorities," he said.

"It's not a funny incident," Roy Suryo, a Democratic Party lawmaker, was quoted by the Globe as saying. "Someone must be held responsible for it."

Roy said it appeared that someone had copied images from a pornographic site, saved them and then uploaded them to the parliament's website.

The embarrassing incident came as the government is working to block porn websites as part of a campaign against undesirable internet content.