Govt to detain blogger for defamation

The Jakarta Post   |  Wed, 11/19/2008 6:27 PM  |  National

Communication and Information Minister Muhammad Nuh on Wednesday pledged that his office would arrest a blogger for creating a site that defaming the Prophet Muhammad.

Muhammad Nuh said his office had a tool to detect the blogger's whereabouts.

"We will penalize anyone or any group responsible for making such blogs," he told tempointeraktif.com.

Nuh said the blogger had violated the 2008 law on information and electronic transactions, by disseminating information which could create rivalry among religious communities.

City Police special crimes director Commissioner Raja Erizman said police had traced the website and found it was created outside Indonesia.

The blog, which uses the wordpress.com facility, presents cartoons of the Prophet and has been visited by 91,597 people. It also cites misleading translations of Koranic verses and the prophet deeds and sayings stated in the hadiths. (ewd)
 
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Briend (not verified) — Thu, 02/12/2009 - 4:19pm

Yes! Arrest and penalize all people who want to exercise their universal right of freedom of speech. Let's put the rights of all these self-righteous religions above human rights.
It is time to take away the self appointed special status of all religions, especially as they cannot prove the reasons for their existence. They all think they are right.

Briend (not verified) — Wed, 02/11/2009 - 6:00pm

A religion cannot be 'defamed'! It is a philosophy, a belief system, and only that. All people have the right to question, criticize and even say foul comments about philosophies/religions and their 'founders'. If the minister feels that his founder has been wronged in any way then his founder had better make the claim of defamation personally.
It is time to take away all this privileged status that religions demand. We are not living in the dark ages any more where we need these primitive belief systems anymore. We can think for ourselves.

Jojon (not verified) — Wed, 12/03/2008 - 8:53pm

Ooh I am so afraid to make any comments about islam this day, it is very dangerous, so I rather not!

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