Mayor Diani Budiarto, wants his city, Bogor, to become a halal city. His policy to run Bogor according to Islamic rules includes removing pig-slaughtering equipment and building a slaughterhouse on the outskirts of the city in Bubulak subdistrict.
"Our demand for pork is low anyway. And for other groups that need it, they can procure the facility themselves," he told the press recently. Besides his decision, what caught my attention was the way he built a wall between "us" and "them".
Your comments:
The Bogor Mayor is a racist. Pull him down. He is a traitor to the Indonesian Constitution.
Brien D
As a country, we are supposed to move forward, not backwards. I really see this as a violation of basic human rights. I myself do not like to eat pork, but that does not mean that I can accept the government telling me not to eat pork! Wake up fellows! If the law passes, I will boycott Bogor! Don't get me wrong, pork is not the issue here. It is the ridiculous thinking of the local government that is pissing me off.
Arie Susanto
When did smoking become Halal? Is Bogor going to be a smoking free zone, as well as pork free? I just wonder as nobody ever says anything about tobacco in RI. It's always alcohol, pigs, dress codes, churches location etc.
Can it maybe have to do with the fact that tobacco is a big business in RI? When watching TV, there are sometimes commercial breaks with up to six tobacco commercials in one break! Is there any Muslim that knows why they are not supposed to eat pork? I've asked my Muslim friends and nobody has been able to explain it to me, I always get the answer that they have been told to do so.
Just live in peace and respect each other, do not force beliefs on others by law making....that's backward thinking, we are living in 2009.
Per A
Is Diani Budiarto mayor of all of Bogor or only those from one religion? What's the big deal anyway? Those who eat pork should be free to eat it and those who don't should be free not to.
John Brown
Government and religion have no relationship at all. When you are elected in a government position, you are working for all constituents regardless of their race! I would check Indonesian law. This must be a violation?
Keith harding
Have you ever heard about non-Muslims being beaten and tortured to death here in Indonesia?
Well, I've heard a lot of news saying that Muslims are beaten and tortured to death in any other parts of the world, even in some regions of this country, where Muslims are a minority.
Be grateful of what Muslims do to their non-Muslims fellow country here.
Pork is najis or unlawful as its contains of some kind of worm that could bring a deathly disease to mankind! What more happiness do they (non-Muslims) expect from Indonesia?
They live more prosperously than the majority of Muslims. Muslim leaders have an obligation to keep unlawful things from their fellow Muslims.
I believe that's the only reason we are arguing about this.
Ahamd Maulana
