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Indonesian ex-minister faces jail for insulting
Buddhism
Roy
Suryo Notodiprojo charged with hate speech and blasphemy for offensive tweets
Roy Suryo Notodiprojo.
(Photo: Wikipedia)
Published: December 16,
2022 10:51 AM GMT
Prosecutors
in Indonesia have demanded an 18-month jail term and a 300-million-rupiah
(US$19,355) fine for a former sports and youth minister accused of insulting
Buddhism.
Roy
Suryo Notodiprojo, 54, a Muslim who is also a telematics expert, was arrested
in August after being named a suspect in an alleged hate speech and blasphemy
case a month earlier for tweeting pictures of President Joko Widodo’s face
digitally superimposed on a Buddhist statue, which caused widespread public
anxiety.
He
posted the pictures in June after the government announced plans to raise the
entry fee to Borobudur – the world’s largest Buddhist temple complex – in
Central Java. He commented on his post that the edited pictures were funny.
The
police took action after Kevin Wu, chairman of the Buddhist group Dharmapala
Nusantara, filed a police report against Suryo in June despite his public
apology. Also filing a police report against him was a Buddhist named Kurniawan
Santoso.
During
the trial proceedings at West Jakarta District Court on Dec. 15, prosecutors
said the defendant violated the Electronic Information and Transactions Law that
deals with hate speech, and a clause of the Criminal Code that deals with
blasphemy.
According
to prosecutors, the defendant’s now-deleted post could damage religious harmony
in the country’s multi-religious society.
Buddhism
is one of the six recognized religions in Indonesia. The others are
Catholicism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Protestantism.
Speaking
to UCA News on Dec. 16, Wu said he and other Buddhists "hope that justice
can be upheld in this country so that we, as victims, can feel at peace."
"And
for the perpetrator, a sentence – no matter how long – will have a deterrent
effect definitely. He will be able to respect religious symbols in the future.”
He said
he filed a police report against the former minister because his post caused
anxiety among the public.
“The
Buddhist community monitored the issue at first. When it became bigger, there
were pros and cons, and many non-Buddhists condemned what he did, however, I
took the move. It was because non-Buddhists, who were not directly offended,
could not file a police report,” he said.
“I felt
I had an obligation to help law enforcement officers uphold the law.”
Father
Antonius Benny Susetyo, a member of a presidential unit promoting communal
tolerance, lamented that the former minister who has a better understanding of
the existing laws posted such pictures.
“People
like him should become role models, instead of provocateurs. He knew that what
he did could offend Buddhists,” he told UCA News.
"We
must never mock other people’s religions, particularly in public. We must
prevent ourselves from causing anxiety among the public.”
Meanwhile, Roy’s
lawyer, Muhammad Zulkarnain, told the media that his client objected to the
prosecutors’ demand.
He also
said his client filed a police report in June against three Twitter accounts
that initially shared the pictures, but there was no progress yet.
