Eye of the storm: Meiliana attending a court hearing in Medan. — Reuters
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s largest Muslim organisation has criticised the blasphemy conviction and imprisonment of a Buddhist woman who complained that the call to prayer from her neighbourhood mosque was too loud.
Officials from Nahdlatul Ulama, which claims 60 million members, said yesterday that the woman’s complaint about mosque loudspeakers did not constitute blasphemy under Indonesian law.
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