Smackdown Causes Uproar in Indonesia After Boy is Killed

This is a troubling story.

Smackdown is under fire in Indonesia after a nine-year old boy was killed last month. Speculation is that the child was killed by blows from someone mimicking wrestling moves after watching the show.

Widespread media coverage and public discussion in that nation has focused on the possibility that the WWE is to blame.Private broadcaster Lativi airs the show in Indonesia and illegal video copies are sold across the world's fourth most populous country. Schoolboys are a leading fanbase.

"It is just proper for these kind of shows to be wisely stopped. It seems as if there are no better shows," Women Empowerment Minister Meutia Hatta said on Elshinta news radio on Wednesday.

"This is not only a problem for parents to deal with. This is about society failing to filter what shows are good for our children," she added.

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