Supreme Court upholds 18-month sentence on Meliana, a mother of four from Medan.
Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld a jail sentence for a mother of four who was convicted last year on blasphemy charges for complaining that her neighbourhood mosque was too loud.
Indonesia has the world’s largest population of Muslims, and sizable Buddhist, Christian and other religious minorities, but the propagation of conservative and hardline interpretations of Islam in recent years has fanned fears that the secular nation is becoming less tolerant. Meliana’s lawyers said she had made remarks in a private conversation in 2016 on the volume of mosque loudspeakers.
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