Jakarta: Armed with saws, a group of 300 Muslims gathered outside a radio station in Batam three years ago, threatening to cut its radio antenna if it did not stop airing extreme religious sermons.
“They shouted, ‘If you don’t stop criticising us, we will break down this post’,” the head of Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Ministry in Batam, Zulkifli Aka, said is an interview yesterday.
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