Unusual use

The Indonesian Cellular Show was recently held in Jakarta, much to the delight of the “handphone”-mad population. Indonesians love their handphones, from the rich who think nothing of splashing out a small fortune on the latest models, to elementary school kids and even maids and street-food vendors, handphones are much coveted in Indonesia.

And Indonesia really is the perfect market. There can be few nations where people like to gossip and chat as much as Indonesians do. Besides this, Indonesians also like to show off their latest gadgets. These handphone owners fulfill the deep inward urge that Indonesians have to gossip, but, at the same time, they can also lap up the envy of their friends.

Nowadays handphones can be very useful, perhaps the most useful function -other than the phone of course- is the built-in camera. Not for the quality which is bad, but the possibilities.

Indeed, you shouldn’t be surprised to know that they took this course of action after a number of girls had been expelled from schools and universities for – shock horror - using the phones to photograph their classmates.

Also in Indonesia, some handphone users are taking things further. A lot further in fact. Because the big trend now in indonesia is of handphone users taking uncompromising photos of girlfriends and hookers and then posting them up on the Web for everyone to see...