She was also fined 250 million rupiah (S$22,177). Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA – An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman to two years in prison and handed her a heavy fine after she recited an Islamic prayer before eating pork in a viral TikTok video widely criticised in the Muslim-majority country.
It came after a resident reported Mukherjee in March for the video, which amassed millions of views, in which she uttered a Muslim prayer that translates to “in the name of God”, before consuming crispy pork skin. Mukherjee identifies herself as a Muslim and her actions were condemned by conservative groups including the country’s top Muslim clerical body, the Indonesian Ulema Council, which issued a ruling calling the video blasphemous.
Rights groups have long campaigned against the laws that they say are frequently misused to target religious minorities.
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