The Indonesian broadcasting commission has told RCTI, the private television network that airs the Crayon Shin-chan series, to either cut indecent parts of the programme or show it at a later time, when it will be missed by many in its target audience: young children.

Photograph: Shin-Ei Animation Photograph: Shin-Ei Animation Justin McCurry in Tokyo Wed 12.54 BST Last modified on Tue 21.32 GMT With his penchant for mooning and blurting out risqu spoonerisms, Crayon Shin-chan has delighted Japanese children, and infuriated their parents, for more than two decades.īut now the precocious five-year-old has met his match in the form of Indonesian regulators, who have declared his antics as borderline pornography and warned broadcasters to censor images of his bare buttocks, scantily clad women and other indecorous scenes. Photograph: Shin-Ei Animation Photograph: Shin-Ei Animation Crayon Shin-chan has a penchant for mooning. In name of saving democracy, they get money from various sources.

However, students details will be scrutinised by the authorities of the institution before the classes begin, the official said.