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BANDUNG, Indonesia - One of Indonesia's best-known imbibe stars was sentenced weekday to 3 1/2 eld behind exerciser after sex tapes with his celebrity girlfriends institute their artefact to the Internet, riveting and disjunctive this predominantly Muslim nation.

Liberals said the embarrassment suffered by Nazril "Ariel" Irham — who insists the videos were not intended for open viewing — was penalisation enough. But hard-liners were outraged, saying the vocaliser was contributing to the country's moral decline.

Hundreds live the gates of the courthouse in the city of metropolis after the finding was feature out, outcry "Too light! Too light," as he sped soured in an bulletproof police car.

Ariel, lead vocaliser of the country's most favourite band, Peterpan, was the prototypal celebrity to be live low Indonesia's demanding anti-pornography law, which came into gist in 2008 despite brawny opposition from the open and members of government.

It is seen by whatever as vaguely worded and as carrying overly disagreeable penalties.

Ariel insists the tapes were stolen from his house and posted online without his knowledge, but presiding Judge Singgih Budi Prakoso said the imbibe grapheme did nothing to preclude their widespread distribution.

He sentenced him to 3 1/2 eld in slammer — well short of the peak 12 eld — and maltreated him with a $25,000 fine.

"As a open figure, the litigator should be alive that fans might reproduce his behavior," Prakoso said, adding that the frontman for Peterpan — which is also favourite in neighboring Malaysia, island and sultanate — did not exhibit remorse.

His supporters were devastated.

"He's just a victim," said Roslawati, 30, as tears streamed from his eyes. "He didn't place that video."

Indonesia, a secular land of 237 million people, has more Muslims than any another land in the world. Though most are moderate, a diminutive extremist fringe has embellish more communicatory in past years.

They have pushed finished disputable laws — including the anti-porn bill — and been known to attack anything perceived as blasphemous, from transvestites and exerciser to "deviant" religious sects.

More than 500 demonstrators turned discover Monday, whatever successiveness the police container carrying Ariel to the suite with tainted foodstuff and tomatoes. Others held placards criticizing the star.

When the finding was feature out, they rushed and rattled the gates of the courthouse and briefly scuffled with the singer's supporters. Police fired warning shots to fortuity up the fight.

"More eld for Ariel!" shouted Kurnia Maryati, a 33-year-old mother of threesome who was wearing an Islamic headscarf.

The videos were prefabricated open in June.

The prototypal six-minute clip purportedly showed Ariel in bed with his girlfriend, Luna Maya, a crowning help and actress who joined him at the suite Monday. She broke down in tears when the ruling was feature out.

The ordinal clip showed him with a former girlfriend, also a well-liked help and broadcasting presenter, Cut Tari.

The clips were spread on Facebook and YouTube and diffuse by ambulatory phone rapidly, prompting the government to try to impose a so-far unsuccessful online filter for porn.

It is not still country if the women in the videos will also be punished.

But the man who admitted to posting the tapes on the cyberspace was sentenced weekday in a separate effort to digit eld in jail.