Indonesia jails woman who said Muslim prayer before eating pork

Reuters :
An Indonesian court sentenced a woman to two years in prison this week for violating the country’s blasphemy law after she posted a video on social media site TikTok in which she said a Muslim prayer before eating pork.

Indonesia is the largest Muslim-majority nation in the world and pork is considered ‘haram,’ or not permissible, under Islam.

Lina Lutfiawati, also known as Lina Mukherjee, who identifies as being Muslim according to court documents, posted a video TikTok in March in which she said the prayer, which translates to ‘in the name of God’, before eating crispy pork skin.

The court in the Indonesian city of Palembang, on Sumatra island, sentenced Lina for her actions on Tuesday and found she deliberately “spread information that was intended to incite hate or individual/group enmity based on religion,” according to a court document.

It ordered her to pay a fine of 250 million rupiah ($16,249.59).