Indonesia steamrolls bootleg alcohol during Ramadan
Indonesian workers destroying bottles of liquors from recent raids in Jakarta today. The Jakarta government destroyed about 1,800 bottles of liquors during the holy month of Ramadan. – EPA pic, May 27, 2019.
ABOUT 18,000 bottles of bootleg alcohol were crushed by a steamroller in Muslim-majority Indonesia’s capital today as police warned tipplers off booze during the Ramadan fasting month. Nearly 90% of Indonesia’s 260 million people are Muslims who are advised to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex between sunrise and sunset during Ramadan.
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