Keep your kisses short in Tangerang

Keep your kisses short in Tangerang JAKARTA (Reuters) - Unrelated people who kiss each other on the lips for more than five minutes at public places in the Indonesian city of Tangerang will face arrest, local media said Friday.

The government in Tangerang, a suburb west of Jakarta, defended the regulation as a practical guideline for its officers to follow up on tough and heavily criticized anti-prostitution laws passed by the city council last year.

"Please do not dramatize this. We will not arrest people at will as we are not oppressors," Ahmad Lutfi, head of the city's public order department, told the Koran Tempo newspaper.

Lutfi declined to comment on whether officers would be armed with stopwatches, Tempo reported.

Looks like I won't be traveling to Tangerang anytime soon. I like kissing way too much and when the mood strikes, laws be damned!