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Is Indonesia’s blasphemy law for religious protection or political purpose?

South China Morning Post
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Is Indonesia’s blasphemy law for religious protection or political purpose?
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Indonesia’s blasphemy law has once again come under scrutiny after former vice-president Jusuf Kalla was reported to police over remarks linking past Muslim-Christian conflicts to beliefs about martyrdom.
The case is unusual because it involves Christian complainants against one of the most senior Muslim figures in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation and reflects what critics have long called the law’s central flaw: its susceptibility to politicised use.
Kalla, a career politician..

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