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2017, May 15 - 21 --- Tempo

One worrying question that emerges after the sentencing of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is whether Indonesia is turning into a theocracy. The two-year sentence given to the now inactive Jakarta governor after he was found guilty of blasphemy, has damaged Indonesia's reputation as a democratic and moderate, tolerant nation. The problem lies with the blasphemy article in the Criminal Code, which is wide open to misuse for political interests, to name one. This was the article used by the North Jakarta district court to convict Basuki. There was no dissenting opinion among the five judges headed by Jakarta District Court Chief Justice, Dwiarso Budi Santiarto, who was promoted to high court judge the day after the verdict. Leaving aside the question of whether Ahok's statement was wrong or not, it certainly did not sound blasphemous. The charges against him appeared after a video recording of the event was uploaded onto social media and edited to change the context by Buni Yani, a lecturer at a higher education institute in Jakarta who is now indicted for spreading hate speech.

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